0 Calorie Sweetener Equal Products Review

August 17, 2013

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0 Calorie Sweetener Equal Products Review

Heya everyone,

This post was requested by one of our dear readers. A lot of people in India who use artificial sweeteners trust the ‘Equal’ brand a lot. Let us take a critic approach to review Equal products. I have not used Equal sweeteners, so I am picking pictures and ingredient list from their website for analysis. I don’t think this post requires a detailed description, you will know why when you finish reading!

Equal as a brand has 4 products named as –

Original,
Sucralose,
Saccharine,
Next.

Original

Ingredient List and Nutrition Facts

Do you notice Aspartame in the pic below? Read here to know how dangerous Aspartame is!

Sucralose

Ingredient List and Nutrition Facts

Emphasis on Splenda and Sucralose! Read here to know if Splenda/sucralose is good for us.

Saccharin

Ingredient List and Nutrition Facts

Saccharin is a sulfa-based sweetener with the primary 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 to date.

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.

12 COMMENTS

Anamika August 17, 2013 at 9:07 pm

I am glad i am not into sweeteners 🙂
Tarun Preet August 17, 2013 at 11:09 pm

I have done it all 🙁 . No more now
shweta August 17, 2013 at 11:21 pm

have doen it too.. then tossed everything outta my kitchen
Tarun Preet August 17, 2013 at 11:24 pm

🙁
i have never tried to investigate what company claims. I regret believing such crooks
Anamika August 18, 2013 at 8:43 am

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.
Tarun Preet August 18, 2013 at 12:12 pm

Yeah. That’s the irony. You take sweetener to avoid sugar n end up doing the same thing to yourself
Jaanu August 19, 2013 at 8:51 pm

Thanks Ana..

This is too dangerous 🙁
Tarun Preet August 19, 2013 at 11:23 pm

You’re welcome Jaanu
Minisha September 2, 2013 at 11:26 am

Indeed they are harmful, if used fr very long….
Tarun Preet September 2, 2013 at 12:16 pm

Minisha, I have seen people using them entire lifetime. N even diabetic patients use them for eternity. Strange !
amrita tripathy March 7, 2014 at 1:58 am

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
Tarun Preet March 7, 2014 at 10:19 am

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.