Heya everyone,
This post was requested by one of our dear readers. A lot of people in India who use artificial sweetener trust ‘Equal’ brand a lot. Let’s take a critic approach to reviewing Equal products. I have not used Equal sweeteners , so I am picking piccys and ingredient list from their website for analysis. I don’t think this post requires detailed description, you will know why when you finish reading !
Equal has 4 products – Equal Orginial, Equal Sucralose, Equal Saccharine and Equal Next.
Equal Original
Equal Original Ingredient List and Nutrition Facts
Do you notice Aspartame in the pic below ? Read here to know how dangerous Aspartame is !
Equal Sucralose 
Equal Sucralose Ingredient List and Nutrition Facts
Emphasis on Splenda and Sucalose ! Read here to know if splenda/sucarlose is good for us.
Equal Saccharin
Equal Saccharin Ingredient List and Nutrition Facts
Saccharin is sulfa-based sweetener withprimary ingredient – benzoic sulfimide. The side effects of saccharin include nausea, diarrhea, skin problems or other allergy-related symptoms.
Concerns: The early research of saccharin showed that this sweetener caused bladder cancer in rats. Scary right ?
This is the reason that saccharin has been the most investigated of all artificial sweeteners. No connection between saccharin and bladder cancer in humans has been proven till date.
Equal Next
Equal Next Ingredient List and Nutrition Facts
Equal Next contains both aspartame and saccharin both; two villains better than one 😛
In my honest opinion, all these Equal products are unsafe to use. I will review Sugar Free Gold and Stevia in the coming posts for you to choose a sweetener wisely.
Which Equal product do you use ? Let us know !
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I am glad i am not into sweeteners 🙂
I have done it all 🙁 . No more now
have doen it too.. then tossed everything outta my kitchen
🙁
i have never tried to investigate what company claims. I regret believing such crooks
Once one of my diabetic relative got the sugar free …i told him to avoid it but he still chose to go ahead with it and his blood sugar level shot up with in no time.
Yeah. That’s the irony. You take sweetener to avoid sugar n end up doing the same thing to yourself
Thanks Ana..
This is too dangerous 🙁
You’re welcome Jaanu
Indeed they are harmful, if used fr very long….
Minisha, I have seen people using them entire lifetime. N even diabetic patients use them for eternity. Strange !
Hey Tarun,
I would like to know what can be used in such scenario? Stevia – is it good? I have been readin in IWB blog quite sometime.
And good thing is this blog is so motivating that without being irregular i have been going for walk constantly everyday for an hour to 70 min. I dont complain any more. 🙂
I would really like to know what sweetner can be used other than jaggery and honey.
My boss once told be that all these artificial sweetners (being cancerous) is no where proved scientifically. Well I was not very sure. I would really like to know
Hi Amrita, thanks for kind words 🙂 , continue walking 🙂 !
You can try stevia – http://fitnessvsweightloss.com/best-sugar-substitute-stevia-sweetener-review/
Other than stevia, no sweetener is safe. Use jaggery n honey. You can also use brown sugar once a while but in limit.