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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 bes
by 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 agoTo your first point: 1 Calorie = 1 Kilo-calorie = 4184 Joules so 200Calories actually _is_ close to a quarter-million calories (small c)