• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    8 days ago

    How the fuck does artificial sweetener have more calouries than sugar?

    Surprised by onions.

    I’m hungry now.

    • Shannaresh@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      Generally they’re something on the order of 400x as sweet as sugar so it takes a negligible amount to sweeten an item compared to sugar, hence low calorie

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      8 days ago

      They are all 200 caloreies, so needs lots of sweetener packs to get to 200 calories