SPLENDA® Facts

SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener; the sweetness your patients desire and the safety you demand!

When considering their dietary options, patients want to reduce calorie and sugar intake without sacrificing taste. Sucralose (the sweetening ingredient in SPLENDA® products) gives SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener a consistently sweet taste in a variety of uses:

  • Retains sweetness under the high heat of cooking and baking
  • Does not lose its sweetness with the low pH of foods and beverages such as iced tea
  • Remains sweet even with prolonged storage

Sucralose, the sweetening ingredient in SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener, was shown to have a very similar flavour profile to sugar, based on an extensive independent study. Sucralose tastes like sugar and has no unpleasant bitter aftertaste.

Click here to view the taste profile comparison of SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener and sugar.

SPLENDA® products have an outstanding safety profile

As a healthcare professional, you want to make dietary recommendations that are healthy and easy for your patients to follow. Based on the findings from more than 100 scientific studies1, sucralose has been found by leading health authorities to be a safe and an essentially inert ingredient, with:

  • No known side effects
  • No toxicity, even in test diets simulating the sweetness of 40+ pounds of sugar per day for life
  • No bioaccumulation
  • No carcinogenicity
  • No genotoxicity
  • No effects on fetal or neonatal development
  • No neurotoxicity
  • No cariogenicity
  • No effect on carbohydrate metabolism (sucralose is not hydrolyzed or broken down for energy)
  • No calories or carbohydrates
  • No effect on short- or long-term glucose control or on serum insulin levels

1The studies were conducted with pure sucralose, the form of the ingredient used by food manufacturers to sweeten their food and beverage products. The tabletop sweetener products contain small quantities per serving of food bulking ingredients commonly found in other no calorie sweeteners. These bulking ingredients contribute less than 5 calories and 1 gram carbohydrate per serving. Foods with less than 5 calories per serving meet Health Canada standards for no calorie foods. Neither SPLENDA® Granulated nor SPLENDA® Packets would be expected to have a meaningful effect on blood sugar levels, when used in a reasonable amount.

Taste profiles of sugar and SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener

Taste profiles of sugar and SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener