New Product Review: Starbucks’ New Zero Creamers

Starbucks’ New Zero Creamers contain 20 fewer calories and 6 grams less sugar per serving than Starbucks’ existing options.

The American Heart Association recommends capping daily sugar intake at 24 grams (6 teaspoons of sugar). If you consume two tablespoons of the regular creamer, you’re already reaching half of your recommended limit.

The new Starbucks’ creamers come in caramel and hazelnut flavors, inspired by their popular in-store drinks caramel macchiato and hazelnut latte, respectively.

The ingredients listed on the Zero Creamer bottles are nonfat milk, heavy cream, vegetable oil, buttermilk, salt, sucralose, gellan gum, and natural flavor. The regular liquid coffee creamer contains nearly the same ingredients with sugar instead of sucralose and slightly less salt.

Sucralose is an artificial sweetener and sugar substitute made from a chemical process that tweaks sugar to form a calorie-free sweetener 600 times sweeter than sugar. According to WebMD, sucralose is marketed as Splenda. The difference between Splenda and other sweeteners, like aspartame (Equal) and saccharin (Sweet’N Low), is that it’s actually made from real sugar. This gives it a taste that is generally more preferable compared to other artificial sweeteners.

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Crispy – Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Recipe with SPLENDA®

I don’t know about you but I’ve been I baking more during this unprecedented upheaval in our lives. I have found that baking and seeing everyone else’s baked goods on social media is uniquely comforting.

Lately, I’ve spent time researching dessert recipes with less sugar or sugar substitutes like SPLENDA® in them to post on the blog. 

SPLENDA® is made from the FDA-approved artificial sweetener sucralose – a zero calorie artificial sweetener. According to Verywell Health, sucralose is made from sugar in a multi-step chemical process where 3 hydrogen-oxygen groups are replaced with chlorine atoms.

Crispy – Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Recipe with SPLENDA® 

Partial List of Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup SPLENDA® Sugar Blend

FULL RECIPE

Not sure how much Splenda to substitute in your favorite recipe? There’s handy Conversion Chart on the SPLENDA® website. CLICK HERE

Keep in mind, when it comes to managing diabetes, all carbohydrates count. Just because a recipe contains SPLENDA®, doesn’t mean its carbohydrate-free.

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