Turbinado vs Splenda

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The main difference is splenda have no sugar and calories but turbinado sugar has 16 calories and 4 grams of sugar. So splenda is always safe to consume.

Turbinado sugar

Turbinado sugar is also called as raw sugar. It contains some molasses and that occurs their brown color and caramel flavor. It’s also made from sugarcane. Turbinado sugar contains 16 calories and 4 grams of sugar.

Brown sugar on cake

Splenda

let’s talk about some basics about Splenda. it tastes much sweeter to us than regular sugar therefore you need a lot less of it to get that same sweet taste. the components of Splenda are sucralose, dextrose and maltodextrin and splenda passes through our body mostly unabsorbed which is why it can be called calorie free and sugar free. there’s also an established ADI which is the acceptable daily intake of Splenda upto which causes no health effects. ADI is the amount that can be ingested daily over a lifetime without any risk to our health. this is measured based on our body weight and for sucralose it’s about 5 milligrams per kilogram of our body weight consumed every single day for the rest of our lives with no health effects. so if you weigh about 150 pounds or 68 kilos, that equates to about 340 milligrams of sucralose. about 9 diet colas a day or more than 28 packets of sucralose. sucralose has actually been found to be safe at a hundred times that amount. so I really don’t have any idea where the myth came from that Splenda is unsafe but I have one theory. some people tend to be afraid of things that they don’t understand and understanding that sugar comes from sugar beets is so much more simple than understanding how Splenda is made.

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