Splenda: A popular artificial sweetener that uses sucralose as its primary ingredient. It is commonly used in foods and beverages, such as candy, baked goods, and soft drinks.
Other sucralose-based products:
While Splenda is the most well-known brand, there are other products that use sucralose as their sweetening agent. These products may be sold under different brand names or as generic alternatives to Splenda.
Note that sucralose is also used in combination with other artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame and acesulfame potassium, in some products.
lol
great ANOTHER way leftists are destroying the world!
It seems lately that one sweetener or another is newly discovered to be health hazards. A few months ago the natural sugar alcohol Erythritol was made the new demon. Shortly before that, Stevia was under renewed scrutiny.
And lately, even Xylitol is getting a bad review.
I’m of the opinion that it doesn’t matter, in moderation.
Bring back cyclamate!
In the past, an article like this might alarm me, but now I assume all these studies have some sort of agenda behind them, so I just ignore them and move on with life.
This ‘study’ thoughtfully brought to you by the Sugar Cane and Sugar Beet Producers Union. ;)
Actually, we need to quit eating artificial anything. Stick with what God gave us in the first place.
cannot be broken down? dafug is it made of, kryptonite? anything that isn’t an element can be broken down, can’t it?
Just stop eating wheat and you’ll stop craving sugar.
Wheat clogs up your systems so you aren’t absorbing nutrients. So the more you eat, the hungrier you get.
Stop (RELIGIOUSLY!!!) for one month and see it it helps you. It changed my entire life.
(but caution! you have to be absolutely committed to no-wheat. If you eat any bread or noodles you have to start all over.)
Just eat fresh meat and veggies. That makes it easy. It sounds like it would expensive- but its not. The first thing you will notice is that you are no longer hungry all the time. I sometimes forget if I’ve eaten some days. I used to eat an entire steak for dinner, but now I can easily be satisfied if I cut it into 4 pieces.
The 2nd thing is that your stomach will deflate like a balloon. (actually that might be the first thing)
Fake Scientists at it again ,LOL
Why don’t these clowns “discover” what illegal alien humnan waste is doing to disrupt our “ecosystem” down along the border. Endangered species don’t even attempt to cross back and forth across the border because of the sanitation catastrophe going on in the ecosystem down there.
Sucralose was discovered in 1976 by scientists from Tate & Lyle, working with researchers Leslie Hough and Shashikant Phadnis at Queen Elizabeth College (now part of King’s College London). While researching novel uses of sucrose and its synthetic derivatives, Phadnis was told to “test” a chlorinated sugar compound. According to an anecdotal account, Phadnis thought Hough asked him to “taste” it, so he did and found the compound to be exceptionally sweet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose
Sugar has only 16 calories per teaspoon, and an adult shouldn’t have more than 7 - 8, per day, maybe a little more depending on size. I’ve only had artificial sweeteners a few times, and that was by mistake. Couldn’t stand the stuff. Sugar or honey for me.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3856475/
Sucralose, A Synthetic Organochlorine Sweetener: Overview of Biological Issues
snip.... conclusions
4. Sucralose alters indigenous bacterial balance in the GIT. Sucralose (delivered as Splenda) reduced the number of indigenous bacteria in the GIT with significantly greater suppression for the generally beneficial anaerobes (e.g., lactobacilli, bifidobacteria) and with less inhibition for more detrimental bacteria (e.g., enterobacteria). Further, the numbers of total anaerobes did not return to baseline after a 3-mo recovery period (Abou-Donia et al., 2008). Alterations in the number and composition of bacteria were accompanied by elevation of fecal pH and histopathological changes in intestinal epithelial barrier. Given that alterations in gut microflora contribute to numerous medical conditions (Guarner and Malagelada, 2003; Hart et al., 2002; Turnbaugh and Gordon, 2009), further investigation of the impact of sucralose on gut microflora is warranted.
5. Numerous toxicological issues regarding long-term exposure to sucralose are unresolved. Several issues that warrant additional investigation to determine their clinical relevancy include potential damage to DNA (Sasaki et al., 2002), generation of chloropropanols during baking (Rahn and Yaylayan, 2010), and potential epigenetic alterations, particularly for the sucralose hydrolysis product 1,6-DCF which is an alkylating agent. The possibility of bioaccumulation of sucralose and/or its metabolites in the presence and absence of medications has not yet been studied. The health effects of co-administration of sucralose with the taste enhancer ADTP are not known.
Any comments on stevia?