Diet Soda? Tried a search with no luck...

[Elizellen]

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Does anyone know how much sweetner is in a can of Diet Rite?

Count one serving of sweetener for each 'serving' of drink. The can should state how much equals one 'serving' - usually it is reckoned to be 8 fluid ounces so a 12 ounce can would have 1.5 servings in it - half of your 'up to 3' servings a day.

[Sherri]

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Just wanted to share with all of you here. Just exactly what Splenda is, a chemicly based sweetner. Very Toxic! If you would like to learn more about Chemicly based sweetners and the hazards of using them, you are welcome to read the information I share at my "No Sweetners" challenge at http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...challenge.html
Page 3. Also on page 1 post #104, you will find the Ecologist report on Aspartame. A worth reading if you or someone you know is ingesting chemicle based sweetners.
For those that have given up the sweetners and are willing to, come by and join us at the challenge.

SPLENDA (sucralose)
Why is Splenda potentially harmful?
According to the Splenda International Patent A23L001-236 and PEP Review #90-1-4 (July 1991) Sucralose is synthisized by a five step process.
To illistrate the alarming "chemicle soup" required to create sucralose, listed are the chemicles used to produce this sweetner and to secure the chlorine does NOT digest in your body.
1.) Acetone
2.) Acetic Acid
3.) Acetyl Alcohol
4.) Acetic Anhydride
5.) Ammonium Chloride
6.) Benzene
7.) Chlorinated Sulfate
8.) Ethyl Alcohol
9.) Isobutyl Ketones
10.) Formaldehyde
11.) Hydrogen Chloride
12.) Lithium Chloride
13.) Methonal
14.) Sodium Methoxide
15.) Sulfuryl Chloride
16.) Trityl Chloride
17.) Taluene
18.) Thionyle
Splenda (made from sucralose) is created in the lab by using a complex process involving dozens of chemicles you and I can barely pronounce- let alone consume. Basicly, the chemists force chlorine into an unatural chemicle bond with a sugar molecule, resulting in a sweeter product, but at a price: a huge amount of artificial chemicles must be added to keep sucralose from digesting in our bodies. These toxic substances also prevent (hopefully) the dangerous chlorine molecules from detaching from the sugar molecules inside the digestive system, which would be a carcenogenic hazard.

[DesertRain]

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There has got to be some truth to the mental sweet-craving trigger and artificial sweeteners. I just wanted to share that before I started I was a diet-soda-addicted, candy-consuming, cake-devouring woman...and I am on day 5 of induction with water only and I have not had a craving for anything sweet, not at all...not even once. I am in complete disbelief that someone like me can go 4 whole days without even thinking of satisfying my sweet tooth. This is fantastic!

[ErinLea]

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Are the sweetener's that you have mentioned ANY sweeteners? I drink mostly water at work but on the weekend I drink a lot of tea with sweet-n-low. Is this a big problem?

[Elsie150]

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YEP...first of all you are limited to 3 artificial sweetners a day. Sweet-n-low is even worse than the Splenda. I use Splenda or Stevia.

[Littlehaze]

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I have no idea what the serving size is for a can of Diet Rite, but I thought that I had read somewhere that whatever it is, you're suppose to subtract the serving from the three you're allowed.
So, if a whole can is 1 serving, then you'd subtract 1 from 3.

I don't know how accurate that is, but I'm pretty sure I read that on this site.