Don’t even say anything about Splenda, or...else! LOL
Last night, for the first time, I picked up a quart of Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream made with Splenda. One half the fat, and 1/3 of the calories. Or something like that. (It was on sale. I’m cheap.)
It was AWESOME. Understand that I will be FReeping the rest of the week with a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone until it’s gone.
Never could I take Sweet-n-Low, Nutri-Sweet, or any of that crap. But Splenda.....
Ding
Ding
Ding
We have a winner!!!!
It was AWESOME. Understand that I will be FReeping the rest of the week with a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone until it’s gone.
I remember back when sugar-free ice cream was first offered at Baskin/Robbins, I took home a quart of Mint Choc Chip and enjoyed a dish -- and then suffered Montezuma's Revenge for a couple of days, oy! I discovered the culprit to be the fact that the sweetener used was Maltitol, NOTORIOUS for this side-effect ... I had a cousin with diabetes discover this dreaded when she munched a pile of sugar-free chocolate-covered pretzels about the same time.
I was avoiding sugar-free ice cream these last years in part due to that, but also because more recently, the labels said the substitute used was Nutrasweet -- while I didn't mind Equal in my iced tea, I always found a bit of an aftertaste in a Diet Pepsi. My father was a soda pop maker all his life, he said that Nutrasweet has a *shelf life*, at a certain point, diet soda won't be sweet any more, I found this to be the case with some other Nutrasweet products, Smuckers sugar-free jams/preserves, even refrigerated, they simply did not hold the sweet.
I LOVE Splenda, no aftertaste at all in anything I've eaten or drunk, in fact, I think it made Diet 7Up taste better. The Splenda Smuckers are wonderful, they taste as sweet as regular jam. I will check my grocery next time, read the labels on the sugar-free ice cream, thanks for letting me know it's out there.