Splenda

[GS4]

Ok im getting ready to start my cutting phase, trying to stay away from sugar, very hard as you can imagine, I dont usually eat sugar items like cereal, cookies or ice cream, but I do add my share of splenda to my oats and my black coffee usually one packet, and was wondering what might be the pros and cons on this?

[maxwkw]

As long as you don't overdo it it shouldn't be a big problem. However, I will let you know that splenda packets do in fact have calories. They have about 2 per packet (which means nothing, unless you're using a crazy amount of it).

So as long as you've never had a problem with it I don't see how 1 or 2 a day will hurt you.

[gbrice75]

Agreed with the above. I don't believe a bit of splenda (within reason) will hurt you - even beyond 1 or 2 packets. I add 3 packets to my oats alone, 2 to my coffee, and sometimes eat oats twice and have 2 cups of coffee.

[jngymrat]

Spot on advice above, Splenda is from a sugar alcohol and really does nothing to the blood sugar at all, in fact it is very fast absorbing, but like gbrice said, you still want to use caution.

[Tigershark]

Agreed. I have cut all sugar from my diet and Splenda is the best tasting sweetner in my opinion.