Is Splenda really calorie free?”
SPLENDA (sucralose) is a no-calorie sweetener that’s made from real sugar and tastes just like it, but your body doesn’t metabolize it as a carbohydrate. Sucralose falls into the category of being a non-nutritive sweetener. This means that since it is 600 times sweeter than sugar, usage levels are so low that it provides minimal amount of nutrients, which also includes calories. Even though it is made from sugar, sucralose goes through a multiple-step process that selectively substitutes three atoms of chlorine for three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the sugar molecule. This change in molecular structure categorizes sucralose as an artificial sweetener.
