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Do diet sodas contain sugar?

By rose27 Asked Jan 9 2005 6:45PM
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by ... on Jan 11, 2005 at 3:47 pm Permalink

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Avatar Namaste formerly future_health_educator Jun, 07 2008 at 04:28 AM
Some soda contains splenda instead of aspartame.

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by Anonymous on Feb 25, 2005 at 3:45 pm Permalink

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  There are a few diet sodas (for example, Diet–Rite™, and Walgreens' house-brand diet cola) are sweetened with sucralose, AKA Splenda™, which is a modified form of sugar.  Sucralose tastes like regular sugar, but is not absorbed or processed by our digestive systems.

Otherwise, most diet sodas are sweetened with aspartame or saccharine, and do not contain any sugar at all.
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by DrGourmet on Jun 11, 2008 at 6:40 pm Permalink

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Diet sodas do not contain sugar but other molecules are used to provide sweetness ("artificial" sweeteners).

The two most common sweeteners in diet sodas today are sucralose (Splenda) and aspartame (Equal or Nutrasweet). Neither have a significant amount of calories. Sucralose is made from sucrose (table sugar) but the final molecule is much different in its chemistry. It is far sweeter than sugar just as other artificial sweeteners like aspartame and saccharine (Sweet 'n Low).

Aspartame is made from two amino acids. These are the building blocks of proteins so in actuality Equal is a protein.

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by Anonymous on Jun 11, 2008 at 6:42 pm Permalink

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Im really not sure. I will have too look it up.
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by datgyallilnikz on Jun 27, 2008 at 12:58 pm Permalink

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sooooooooooooooo butaz man its a stupid question
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by datgyallilnikz on Jun 7, 2008 at 2:50 am Permalink

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huum i dn't no u no mabe a likkle bit
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