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This page says: Brown Sugar 53 grams = 200 Calories Splenda Artifical Sweetener 50 grams = 200 Calories I don't understand?

• igul222 14y ago
  A gram of Splenda might be 10 times as sweet, and occupy 10 times as much volume, as a gram of brown sugar.
• Mitt 14y ago
  Both numbers are totally wrong. Because both should be closer to a quarter million, and not 200. Even one gram of sugar already has over 4000 calories. But besides that, and this is probably your question: you only need a tiny amount of artificial sweetener, to get the same sweetness that you would get with sugar. For example Aspartam is about 200x as sweet as sugar, but it contains a very similar amount of energy. Sugar has ca. 16.8 kJ/g and Aspartam more like 17 kJ/g.
  • fr0sty 14y ago
    To your first point: 1 Calorie = 1 Kilo-calorie = 4184 Joules so 200Calories actually _is_ close to a quarter-million calories (small c)