Sucralose

Introduction:

Sucralose and Splenda are the same artificial sweetener and sugar substitute. Splenda is a brand name of sucralose. You may find sucralose in some diet sodas, yogurt and breakfast cereals. Both Splenda and sucralose can be used for baking and cooking at home as they are heat stable.

How Is Sucralose Made?

Sucralose is made from sucrose or the simple white sugar. While in processing three hydrogen-oxygen groups are replaced with chlorine. Sucralose has about 600 times sweet taste than sugar so a small amount is needed to give sweet taste. Sucralose passes throughout the digestive tract intact that is why it is calorie free.

Safety Record

Sucralose is FDA approved and can be safe for all ages. Also addition of chlorine is not a concern as you find chlorine is salt, lettuce and mushrooms. And as sucralose is not digested in your body so chlorine will not be released into your system.

There are a few anecdotal reports of adverse reactions to sucralose and some very dubious websites claim sucralose ingestion causes several illnesses, including thymus damage. That claim is based on one laboratory study in which young rats with low-calorie laboratory diets were fed sucralose and suffered from shrinking thymus glands (the thymus gland is essential for immune system function).

But here's the thing—that's a typical response that rats have when they're under stress due to weight loss, no matter what caused the weight loss, and it isn't particular to sucralose consumption. Just to be sure, follow-up studies were performed and no evidence of immune system dysfunction was found.

Sources:

https://www.verywellfit.com/what-is-sucralose-and-is-it-safe-2506563?utm_campaign=livinghealthy&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=15992959&utm_term=list_gl_ot_vft-default

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/sucralose-good-or-bad