Sweeteners in Whey Protein Powders
As you know, we had to make a decision on how to sweeten the protein powder. It's not very sweet, but you have to do something to cover the mixed up, sometimes bitter tastes of the vitamins/minerals/enzymes, you know. The choices were: sugar (of one form or another), aspartame, saccharin, stevia, sucralose.
Using actual sugar, while natural, takes 15 grams of a 50 gram serving - minimum - taking the protein output from a healthy 38 grams down to a dismal 22 grams. And that's the starting point - that might not have even tasted good; it might have taken more.
Aspartame and saccharin were never under consideration, so I won't even write any thoughts about that.
Stevia we found just too sweet; we didn't think we could bring it down to the subtle sweetener that we were looking for.
We settled on the sucralose, normally seen as the Splenda brand. They use a process that breaks down sugar, so it starts as sugar but is "artificially" processed. The Splenda you can put directly on your tongue with zero chemical taste, just a mild sugar flavor. (I've done this, in fact, I do it every once in a while from a Splenda box in the kitchen, just to reassure myself that this is still true.) At this point in time, all the research points to this one as the best of the sweeteners available, plus it's subtle, not too sweet, so... that's what we chose.
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