Glad to see someone decided to put GRANULAR Splenda in a larger package!<br /><br />The Splenda "in the bag" is DIFFERENT from that in packets!  It contains<br />maltodextrin -- as do the packets.....BUT NO DEXTROSE!  Dextrose, and sucralose, (the main ingredient), are both SUGARS...but Sucralose, of course, is sugar with a hydrogen atom changed for a carbon atom, (or some such thing)....and so a new, safer "sugar" results!  No "cloying" taste, when used to excess, as "real" sugar has.  So, sucraLOSE, though a sugar, is a sugar of "a different sort"...a safer sort, for diabetics and pre-diabetics.  Granular Splenda has ONLY Sucralose and Maltodextrin...whilst the PACKET variety ADDS the Dextrose....Another form of sugar which is NOT as safe, (for diabetics and pre-diabetics), as sucralose is!  (If you don't believe me that a different formula is in each variety, read the labels, as I did!)<br /><br />This said, I have heard my sister say that there is research that sucralose COULD lead to a shortening of "t" cells in the body...the cells that grow shorter, anyway, as we age.  So, imbibing sucralose -- in any form -- could shorten life...according to what my sister has heard and said, anyway.  How much it shortens life -- if at all -- is something I don't know.  What I DO know is that diabetes -- in any form -- can definitely shorten life, if not treated properly!  I'm a pre-diabetic -- who actually got Type II -- then lost it, (because I lost 30 pounds!)  This may not work for everyone...but it did work for me, so I pass the info on.  A quite thin friend of mine has Type II.  She also has a very negative attitude towards life.  Losing weight obviously will not help her.  Having a more optimistic, (yet still realistic) attitude will.  But it's hard to convince nt negatively-minded friend of this.  Hopefully, this advice of trying to be more positive -- and also losing weight, if possible -- can help others.  Nope -- life isn't perfect for anyone.  But if you sit down, and list the 10 best things in your life in one column, and the 10 worst things in another, you'll see how things balance out, and hopefully, get a more realistically-positive view on life!  Hopefully, too, this realistically-positive attitude -- combined with excercise and diet -- can help regulate...or, perhaps, eventually eliminate, any person's case of diabetes.  Certainly, excercise, good thoughts, losing weight, and correct diets, can't hurt.  Even using Splenda Granulated can't hurt -- too much -- if one cuts down, just a bit.<br /><br />All in all, Splenda Granuated is a great product, and I'm SO glad to see it is now in the "super-economy" size.  When I looked at the "5-pound equivalent bag", I noticed Amazon isn't sellong that any more.  But a notice that the larger-size bag IS being sold on Amazon, should be mentioned there!  Splenda Granulated, even if does break down T-cells (quickly or slowly...I don't know), is still a great product!  Use in moderation -- or as moderately as you can -- though!