Most people would agree that sugar is not very good for humans, especially not for their teeth or their waistlines but finding a substitute has always been a bit of a problem because of other health considerations linked to sugar substitutes. A very brief history of Splenda Splenda is a sucralose and the formula was more or less stumbled upon by accident back in 1976 by British scientists who were looking for a new pesticide formulation! Following further research by food scientists, Splenda was introduced to the market as a sweetener. The claim that Splenda is derived from sugar seems to be debatable as there are arguments on ...  Read the complete review

I have been a member of a product testing website called BzzAgent for a few years now. It is a site that sends out new products for us 'agents' to test and then we can talk (or create buzz) about them to friends and aquiantances. One of the things they sent me lately was this Spenda Granulated. It's a sugar substitute in a powdered form. You can also get Spenda Minis which are hard little pill sized bits and these are especially for adding to teas and coffees. The Granulated variety can be used in a much greater variety of ways such as in baking, over cereals and desserts and in place of icing sugar. I recieved the product in a 75 gram sized sturdy cardboard ...  Read the complete review

Since I'm constantly watching my weight, I've been using sugar replacements for most of my adult life. Unfortunately I only like tea and coffee sweetened and the same goes for any other hot drink such as chocolate, malt etc. I've purchased many different brands of sweetener over the years, mainly the tablet variety. Sweeteners in this form are usually packed in small, easily dispensable and handily portable containers. Sweeteners have always been surrounded by bad publicity, with various studies linking them to all sorts of nasty side effects. The latest research even claims that artificial sugar replacements can actually make us fat! Well, with ...  Read the complete review

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TO SWEETEN OR NOT TO SWEETEN... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My life as a diabetic is ever so slightly complicated by my incorrigible sweet tooth. As real sugar in any appreciable quantity is firmly off the menu, I needed to find a reasonable substitute. I have tried honey and other natural sweetening agents, but that simply won't do for coffee or tea. That said, I am not prepared to trade the years I am putting back on my life expectancy in losing serious amounts of weight (four and a half stone and counting so far) - for other potential health complications (possibly cancer) - something for which artificial sweeteners ...  Read the complete review

I am hugely addicted to coffee and tea so when I recently started my new diet I was desperately searching through the supermarket for a substitute for sugar. I went through a few packets before I tried out Splenda and have to say this is the best choice in my opinion. ***What to expect*** The taste is not that different from sugar. Of course, it isn't going to be that exact sweet taste you would get from real sugar but it still adds a satisfying taste to your beverage. When tasting it on its own, it has a more 'sherbety' taste to it but tastes more sugar like when mixed with food or drinks. Splenda is more powder like that normal sugar ...  Read the complete review