I’ll take pure cane sugar for a sweetener. HFCS, sucralose and the other fake stuff, no thanks.
At least your body has a long evolutionary history of dealing with sugar. Fake sugars, not so much.
Huge amounts of money are invested into developing these fake sweeteners. The FDA does some cursory studies on health effects, but the pressure is on to get it to market and the criteria is there be no significantly observable health effects within the period studied. This stuff has been on the market over 30 years and these effects are only now coming to light.
I have always been skeptical of this one in particular because it is a halogenated organic molecule and I first heard of it right around the same time as I was learning about how organo-halides are generally very bad for your health.