Talk:Sugar packet

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Calories

The end of the article claims all carbohydrates contain 4 calories per gram. What about undegestible carbohydrates (cellulose/amylose). In a chemical view they do have a calorie count as they can be burnt to heat water, however in a nutrition sence they have 0 calories. Since this is talking about the calories digested is this sentence true? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paddycolver (talk • contribs) 12:53, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

inventor info

The grandson of the man who invented the sugar packet, Richard Cohen, has just published a book Sweet 'N Low, about his family, and about the Brooklyn company (Cumberland Packing) which (still) produces the pink Sweet 'N Low brand sweetner packets. Unless someone has a copy at hand and can fill in names and dates from it, I'll have to chase down a copy and come back to do so. Not a race, but .... ww 18:18, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

proposed deletion

sugar packets are a pretty small deal, sure enough. But they have collectors, they have an interesting history, they have connections with such things as teabags. All of this suggests that the proposed deletion is inappropriate and an overapplication of a sense of WP tidiness. WP is intended to be inclusive, not pure by some sense of purity in regard to article importance.

I oppose the proposed deletion.

Calories vs. calories

The end of the article claims all carbohydrates contain 4 calories per gram which is technically incorrect. The original definition of "calorie" (lower-case 'c') is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius. The food industry latched onto the word then capitalized the first letter to mean kilo-calorie. The confusion has got so great that many people today correctly us the phrase "gram calorie" to mean the lower value and "nutritional calorie" or "food calorie" to mean the larger value. If no one objects over the next seven days, I will update this article by inserting the word "nutritional" before each occurrence of the word "calorie" Neilrieck (talk) 15:06, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Manufacturing

Content suggestion: I'd love to know more about how the packets are made and filled. Not just for sweeteners but also products that use similar packages, such as gravy mixes, dry cereal, and pasta sauce mixes in boxed pasta kits. Clearly, one folds a piece of paper in half and glues the other three edges. But what keeps the glue from getting into the product? This article says the sweetener packet concept wasn't patented. Were the other kinds of packets patented? -- SpareSimian (talk) 21:56, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]