This is just a ratio thing type recipe that is darn useful—a simple lemonade one glass at a time. You can make regular or raspberry lemonade. Use regular sugar or Splenda to decrease the calories by 170 calories per glass.
I wanted a low-calorie lemonade that I can mix one glass at a time with what I have on hand. I have been using this recipe for almost two years now.
This post just seems too elementary to me. It is just way too simple. You should be able to find this ratio on the Splenda website, but it is not there. 1 part granular Splenda to 2 parts lemon juice to 5 parts water.
Google is no help for the simple ratio I wanted. You must have lemons, club soda, and many other things people put in. Nobody wanted to just tell the ratio of Splenda to ReaLemon to water. How hard could it be?
Splenda Ratio
I suggest 1 part granular Splenda to 2 parts lemon juice to 5 parts water.
I use some of that water ration as ice cubes. One cup of ice cubes will be about ½ to ¾ cup of water, but it varies a little since cubes are different sizes and will leave a different amount of space between cubes.
¼ cup granulated Splenda is equal to 6 packets. I believe that different people perceive the sweetness of Splenda differently. So adjust to your taste. Or just use regular sugar.
The Math
So let’s do the math:
¼ cup Splenda = 24 cal vs ¼ cup sugar = 194 calories
½ cup RealLemon = 24 calories
the tea and the water we will call zero.
The volume is a bit variable. The ice is probably 4-6 oz of water depending on size so ice cubes and airspace in the cup.
So Regular Lemonade with Splenda will be 48 calories for a total volume of a little over 3 cups.
The Raspberry version with Splenda is 36 calories in a total volume of a little over 2 ½ cups.
If sugar is substituted for Splenda, it adds 170 calories to the above numbers.
🍋Regular Lemonade
¼ cup sugar or Granulated Splenda
½ cup ReaLemon
2 cups water-cold
1 cup of ice cubes
🍋Raspberry Lemonade
1 Raspberry herbal tea bag
¼ cup Sugar or Granulated Splenda
¼ cup ReaLemon
1 ½ cups water-near boiling
2 cups ice cubes
Instructions:
For the regular lemonade, just mix.
For the raspberry lemonade, first, make the tea in hot water then add the sugar and ice.
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Recipe
Simple Splenda Lemonade
Ingredients
Regular Lemonade
- ¼ cup sugar - or Granulated Splenda
- ½ cup ReaLemon
- 2 cup water
- 1 cup ice cubes
Raspberry Lemonade
- 1 Raspberry herbal tea bag
- ¼ cup ReaLemon
- 1 ½ cup very hot water
- 1 cup ice cubes
- ¼ cup sugar - or Granulated Splenda
Instructions
- Just mix for the regular lemonade.
For Raspberry Splenda Lemonaid
- Add tea bag to 1 ½ cups of very hot water for 5 minutes. I used a hot water dispenser, or you can boil or microwave the water.
- Mix tea, sugar, and ReaLemon in a large class.
- Add ice
Your Own Private Notes
Recipe Notes
½ cup RealLemon = 24 calories
the tea and the water we will call zero.
The volume is a bit variable. The ice is probably 4-6 oz of water depending on size so ice cubes and airspace in the cup. So Regular Lemonade with Splenda will be 48 calories for a total volume of a little over 3 cups. The Raspberry version with Splenda is 36 calories in a total volume of a little over 2 ½ cups. If sugar is substituted for Splenda, it adds 170 calories to the above numbers.
To adjust the recipe size:
You may adjust the number of servings in this recipe card under servings. This does the math for the ingredients for you. BUT it does NOT adjust the text of the instructions. So you need to do that yourself.
Nutrition Estimate
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Jean Whittaker
Hello, You do not mention the calories per glass for the lemonade -- I know you
Use regular sugar or Splenda to decrease the calories by 70 calories per glass. This is just a ratio thing type recipe that is darn useful.
You do NOT say how many calories are in a glass of lemonade. I do not have the that information
Thanks,
Jean
DrDan
Hi Jean,
Welcome to the blog. My math was 8 yrs old and references have improved. I didn't redo it when I combined the two recipes and re-edited the images.
So here is the math.
1/4 cup Splenda = 24 cal vs 1/4 cup sugar = 194 calories
1/2 cup RealLemon = 24 calories
the tea and the water we will call zero.
The volume is a bit variable. The ice is probably 4-6 oz of water depending on size so ice cubes and airspace in the cup.
So Regular Lemonade with Splenda will be 48 calories for a total volume of a little over 3 cups.
The Raspberry version with Splenda is 36 calories in a total volume of a little over 2 1/2 cups.
If sugar is substituted for Splenda, it adds 170 calories to the above numbers. The 70 was wrong.
The automatic calculation in the nutrition box does some rounding so it is 47 instead of 48 for the regular Splenda lemonade.
The post is updated.
Thanks for the note.
Dan
CookinsForMe
I love homemade lemonade and make it during the warm months. I use Fiber fit sweetener (pure sucralose without the dextrose or maltodextrin of Splenda) and the juice of a real lemon, even throwing the lemon halves in the glass. Mmmm!
And thanks for telling me how to find the recipes. I'm computer literate but missed the 'more' on the pages.