This is the lowest price I have ever seen for this product. I may be wrong as I do not check Coles etc every week, but this rarely goes on sale for more than 20% off.
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What else do you suggest then?
Erythritol is my go-to sweetener. Allulose is arguably the best for baking and health wise (though its expensive af). Theres also Stevia, Monk Fruit Extract (though its frequently blended with mainly Erythritol).
Maltodextrin is just dextrose chained together.
Dextrose is glucose.
Sucrose is roughly 55% fructose and 45% glucose.
I'd consider it better than sugar because it doesn't contain fructose.
And they typically use carbohydrates or fibre as the bulking agent because you need far less sweetener to achieve similar taste (50:1 in some cases).
So yeah. It's got maltodextrin.
And it's probably derived from corn.
Wanna fight about it?
Maltodextrin has 4 calories per gram, like sugar, but has an even higher glycemic index. And it doesnt even taste sweet.
This product advertises itself as "low GI" and yet 55% of it is an ingredient with doulble the glycemic index of table sugar.
Not hating on maltodextrin as a substance. Just pointing out this product is nonsensical and takes advantage of the ignorant.
https://nutrition.abbott/au/product/glucerna-triple-care/ing… more Maltodextrin than any other ingredient, yet still low GI. Also have to consider glycemic load. Usual example is watermelon. High GI, but low GL.
Yeah it'll have the same calories because it's just glucose in chain.
The chain gets cleaved and it's just normal easily absorbed glucose.
The GI of maltodextrin should be lower than glucose because it's a complex carb, can't see how it can absorb faster than glucose or fructose when it's linked…but yeah can't imagine it's any less calories.
Again it's just the bulking agent. You use less gram for gram because the artificial sweetener is many times sweeter than sugar.
It's ultimately a significant reduction in calories.
Which sugar are you talking about if refined sugar maltodextrine is way less harmful than that. An sweetener downst mean sugar free.
You can't be wrong if it's the lowest price you've ever seen.
No thanks, I'm sweet enough 😁
Equivalent to the same weight in sugar, but only 90g in a jar? What a joke!
I buy sugar by the 1kg bag, so this would cost over $40 for equivalent.
Ingredients: Maltodextrin 55%, Fructofibre (Inulin 34%, Oligo- Fructose 8%), Sweeteners (Aspartame 2%, Acesulfame-K 1%).
Am struggling to see what this is supposed to achieve. It is not low-calorie, and certainly no bargain IMHO.
Its not 'equivalent to the same weight', it's equivalent to the same volume. "A teaspoon of that = a teaspoon of sugar.'
There are 100's of teaspoons you can fill with that 90g jar; it's comically huge. Much bigger than a 750g nutella jar.
Ah, so it is mostly air by volume. That explains the low-calorie claims, even though it is 55% Maltodextrin by weight.
It is the 2% Aspartame which is the active ingredient. You might as well buy the tablet form on the same Amazon page, 800 for $5, much better value and less deception.
Or instead, try to eat less cake etc. If artificial sweeteners really worked, we wouldn't all be so fat still.
The powdered versions are usually for baking/cooking.
It spreads the sweetness around evenly and is more stable when cooked.
Artificial sweeteners tend to lose sweetness when cooked, whereas sugar just browns/caramelizes.
They definitely work for reducing calories but yeah if you are trying to eat cake with sweeteners it's still cake and calories.
Keto sweets are funny like that because they are low carb but often eclipse the original calories of sugar with fats.
@Telios: … i see the maltodextrin helps stabilise the Aspartame in cooking.
Still, I'd rather eat smaller portions of good cake, instead of stuffing my face with artificially sweetened cake.
I don't mind a bit of diet-coke, but it ain't the same for baking.
@bargaino: Yup agreed.
Artificial sweetener baked products never taste the same.
Drinks they can get acceptably or even as-good after a brief adjustment period.
None of the artificially sweetened cakes taste close to the balance of sucrose syrup etc
This product is 55% maltodextrin.. which is actually worse than sugar lol