How many cals / carbs are in a regular table spoon of dextrose? How about a large one?
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10-20-2003, 11:38 AM #1Registered User
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How many cals in a spoon of dextrose?
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10-20-2003, 02:21 PM #2Registered User
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Funny. Everyone takes it, no one knows whats in it?
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10-20-2003, 02:42 PM #3Member
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I ordered from protein customizer and they didn't include any info, which annoyed me like nothing else. If I had a scale I would weigh out how much a tbsp. was.
Figure since it's pretty much pure glucose with trace water and impurities that it's gram weight is within 2-5% of actually carbohydrate gram value.
A tbsp. of granulated sucrose is about 12g of carbs and powdered sucrose about 8g of carbs. The texture of my dextrose is somewhere between the two. AST's dextrose is a crystallized, granulated dextrose and is about 11.5g of carbs per tbsp.
If the packaging doesn't indicate your best bet is to weigh it, because it could be a difference of 50% or so, which would really throw off your estimate.
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10-20-2003, 04:39 PM #4Registered User
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I don't have a scale accurate enough to measure that. Perhaps i'll pick one up sometime and then return it
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