oh my god. splenda has 4 calories per packet?!

i did NOT know that!!!!!!! i read the box and the nutrition facts said zero calories per packet! i made sure! it even says on the packet! calories:0

but just now i found out that there are 4. what??? they can't lie like that can they? does that mean sweet-n-low has calories in it too?

but drinks that are made with splenda and stuff, like diet lipton green tea and diet coke, they say zero calories. are they lying too?

i swear to you my box says 0 calories. so how come there are four??

Where did you see that it had 4 calories?

theres a whole thread under the recipe forum about 'low calorie frosting' but people were all 'theres 4 calories per packet! just look at the splenda website!'

but i dont understand. they aren't allowed to make the box say 0 calories if there are really four right?

That's weird because my box says 0 calories. 

CC also says 0 calorie hence the name of Splenda No Calorie packet.

Here's their nutritional information from the Splenda website.  But that's for the no calorie packets.

But if you are using the different splenda products, yes they have calories but not many.

Splenda Sugar Blend for baking and Splenda Brown Sugar Blend has 10 calories per 1/2 tsp.

But those were the only two I could find with calories.  They only have calories because they are blended with sugar and/or brown sugar.

thank god! i was so scared there for a second. i usually dump splenda all over my oatmeal.

I went out and bought a big bag of splenda  and got all excited because it said 0 Calories, I have also heard that to there is 96 calories in 1 cup. If you go to the website it is true, But you think it would be false advertisement. this morning I was so mad about the whole thing I just went back to using my sugar in my coffee instead of splenda, at least it tastes better, and is better for to calculate

what? but on the website it says 'there are zero calories in every packet'

im choosing to believe them. i think that the only splenda with calories are the blended sugar ones, like undertherainbow said.

So then what is the difference between the packet or the splenda sweetner granular

i think the granular ones are mixed with actual sugar, which is why they have the 96 calories. i think if you had a cup of the packet splenda it would be 0 calories. the one you buy for baking is mixed with sugar.

If you go to recipe post and go to the Low Cal. Recipe for frosting, I had tried posting a recipe about Slenda and someone was telling me about the 4 calories per packet, So really from what you guys say I am  really confused now .

see, i have no idea what they could be talking about. they say, legally, splenda can say on the box that they have zero calories if it's less than four. however, on the actual nutrition facts, it has to tell you the truth. i have no idea what those people are talking about. the nutrition facts say it is 0 calories. if its 4, thats illegal. we could sue them.

So is any one going to email them to really find out the truth about the 4 calories, because I am really curious about it

me too! someone call them!

Ok I just emailed them the question I will return back later today with the real answer.

I believe they can actually say 'zero calories' if it's less than 5 calories per serving, can't they?  That's the impression I was under.  That's why the nutrition facts can say '0 calories' and it's perfectly legal.

(It's like how KFC can claim their chicken is "trans-fat free"... but this is "per serving", which means it isn't actually trans-fat free; rather, the amount of trans fats in one serving is under the legal minimum.)

For packaged food, they sometimes round calories, too, to within 5 calories.  For example, something with 237 calories per serving can be rounded up to 240 calories per serving, or something that's 133 can be rounded down to 130.

What it boils down to is that the industry considers an 'error' of 5 calories per serving to be reasonable.

But in the end... don't sweat it!  Seriously, even if you use half a cup of splenda in your oatmeal, that's still only 48 calories.  Your calorie count for the day is probably off by 100 cals anyway - nothing is exact, and there's always measurement and estimation errors.  Please don't worry about it.  It's not worth it!

but the whole reason I purchased the Splenda is because it said no calories, and now I want to know the truth, because if there is calories I won't be buying the product any more, now if I was a dietbetic and purchasing the Splenda it would'nt matter. But what matters to me that it said no calories, they promote it so much so people like us can spend are money to buy their product, and asuming that there is no calories

no but i use so much of that stuff. i thought that it was completely calorie free, so i use it on EVERYTHING. thats probably putting me off by, no joke, 200 calories.

i know what you mean, but even when something says 'ZERO TRANS FATS' on the front, they still have to say on the box  that there's 0.1 per serving or 0.5. so even if splenda said 'zero calories' on the front of the box, if there really was four calories in it, they are legally obliged to write that on the nutrition facts. its illegal not to isnt it?

That is what I thought

That is why they have nutrion facts on everything now days, because it is the law to show the consumers the facts, even if it's just low in the calories

uhh...Maybe it's just me, but do 4 calories matter that much? Unless you measure everything on a scale, you're bound to be off by a little bit.

Here is the truth.

The FDA regulates what companies can claim.

Less than 5 calories can be claimed as calorie free and listed as "0" in the nutrition facts. (This means 4.9 per serving can be listed as 0.)

Less than .5 trans fats can be listed as "0" on the label as well. (This means .49 per serving can be listed as 0.)

Spray butter has calories too.

Sorry to break it to you.

If you are concerned about trans fats: look at the ingrediants. If it says partially hydrogenated ANYTHING - it has trans fats. Trans fats are created in the hydrogenation process, which is mainly used to increase the shelf life of foods.