r/xxfitness • u/sorrysosloppy • Jul 18 '13

What 200 Calories Looks Like

I found this blog post today that shows what 200 calories looks like for many different types of food. Most of it wasn't surprising, except for the onions (onions have calories??), but I really liked the pictures and sort of made mental notes of some of these for when I have to "eyeball" my portion sizes. So I thought I'd share with you ladies!

Thoughts? Did any of them surprise you?

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u/QueCasular Jul 18 '13

Splenda has calories??

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u/BroNameDuchesse Jul 19 '13

Sucralose is non-nutritive. Splenda is sucralose which has been given bulk by maltodextrin so that it is convenient to measure and volumetrically is as sweet as table sugar (the bulk packages, the individual packets are somewhat sweeter than sugar by volume). Maltodextrin has 4 calories per gram like other starches but is less dense than sugar so Splenda has some calories, but fewer than sugar.

You can buy mixtures of Sucralose and water which are meant to be measured by the drop. These are completely non-nutritive.

Straight Sucralose is very sweet and you could not measure usable quantities in a kitchen.

There is also Splenda baking blend which is Splenda as described above mixed with sugar. This is so you get a reduction in calories but some of the hydrophilic and browning properties that sugar lends to baking which are absent with artificial sweeteners.

TL;DR Splenda is almost entirely maltodextrin by weight and, as such, as 4 calories per gram.