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Wellness Wednesday for April 23, 2025

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I gave up real sugar and high-fructose corn syrup years ago in favor of artificial sweeteners like Splenda, aspartame, and stevia. Last week, I decided to also give up zero calorie artificially sweetened drinks on Jim's advice. It's done wonders for controlling my hunger. On the minus side, non-sweet tea and juice taste awful; I would rather just drink cold water at that point. So that's another source of enjoyment gone from my life.

Splenda has calories, about the same as a sugar per gram. 3.5 calories per gram . but they are allowed to round it down to zero.

i was wondering what happened to jim. He owned jim . com which is worth a fortune. and then he stopped updating

My understanding is that all the artificial sweeteners have calories, it's just that they taste so intensely sweet to us that you have to use a tiny amount compared to sugar. And that makes the calories negligible.

Calories are the literal energy content. The subjective taste is irrelevant.

The point is that drinks sweetened with artificial sweeteners have 100 times less calories than drinks sweetened with sugar, because they have 100 times less of the sweetener. And 100 times less calories is so little that it can be rounded down to zero.

It does not matter. A tiny packet has 1 gram, or about 3.5 calories. The sweetness is irrelevant. The rounding down is because it's less than the allowed threshold

Cooking spray doesn't have zero calories, but the reason people think that's true is essentially due to a loophole in nutrition labeling requirements. Essentially, the label says it's 0 calories because of the declared serving size. For any foods, if the declared serving size contains less than 5 kcal (calories), the manufacturer is permitted to round down to 0. This is exactly the reason why Tic-Tacs - probably the most well-known example of this - indicate that they have 0 calories per serving, even though technically each Tic-Tac mint averages about 2 calories. Since the serving size is <5 calories, it can be rounded down to 0.

https://old.reddit.com/r/nutrition/comments/xpsky0/how_does_cooking_spray_have_zero_calories/#:~:text=Since%20the%20serving%20size%20is,much%20any%20liquid%20cooking%20oil.

It does not matter. A tiny packet has 1 gram, or about 3.5 calories.

It does matter, and @tsiivola already said why. You use far less of the artificial sweetener to get the same subjective taste than you do sugar. So while 3.5 grams is the same amount of calories either way, one uses way more than 3.5 grams of sugar.

I wish this site had a decent user block feature as twitter does.

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Click the three dots on someone's comment and select "Block User". You won''t be notified of replies and their comments (but not the children of their comments) will be hidden from you.

As far as I can tell, that's practically identical to Twitter.

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