EQUAL VS. SPLENDA

  I read on the forum that a lot that people use Splenda but what about Equal - That's all I use mainly for my iced coffee or iced tea- I like it much better than Splenda - - does anyone else use Equal? Just curious. Karen B.

I'm a weirdo, I like Sweet N Low.  Then Splenda.  Equal is at the bottom of the 3 for me.  I don't care for the taste of Equal but will do it if I need to.

I prefer equal as well. Splenda has never really gotten it for me. I use equal in my tea. Sure doesnt taste as good as real sugar, but, its tolerable.

> Splenda is a natural product. You can't be serious! Now, I think that sucralose is no better or worse than any other sweetener, but to call it "natural" is bizarre.  It's a new chemical entity that has never existed in nature: a chlorinated disaccharide that is much sweeter than sugar and is minimally metabolized.  Frankly, it's disturbingly similar to the chlorinated pesticides that you sprinkle around your house's foundation to kill termites! Contrast this with aspartame, which is the methyl ester of a dipeptide of the two amino acids phenylalanine and aspartate; if it were present in more than milligram quantities, you could count it as part of your daily protein intake! /Steve

I liked what Alton Brown said, something akin to "Is Sucralose Sugar? Sure, in the same was that Frankenstein's Monster was human!" http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ea/text/0,1976,FOOD_995 6_50120,00.html

Really?  I'm going to have to do more research on these artificial sweetners!

Ugg, I know...  this does worry me.  I used to work with a guy whose wife had cancer and he used to get VERY upset when I made my coffee each morning.  I really should start transitioning over to splenda.

I say go with what you like.  I don't believe in deprivation for it's sake. I think all the hype about Equal is well, hype.  Just my two cents worth.  Loris

I am not crazy about any of the artificial sweeteners, but will use products with sucralose (splenda) or sugar alcohols if I must.  I prefer to use just a small amount of the real thing, or stevia sometmes, but its rather strong.  The thing about splenda that makes it better IMO than sweet n'low or equal is that it doesn't cause a blood sugar spikes - splenda doesn't affect your insulin levels but your body reacts to the other sweeteners like it reacts to sugar.  Taste-wise, they are all equally awful I think.