There's an awful lot of misinformation out there about Splenda and sucralose. In particular, I've found a lot of sites which hype their so-called natural herbalistic solutions, with little to no actual scientific research on whether those have harmful side effects.
I particularly like the argument that sucralose is bad because it's made of chlorine, the same chlorine that goes into your swimming pool!!!!1!eleven (As opposed to the same chlorine that goes into table salt!)
As one of my friends put it, as an alternative sweetner, he'd rather trust sucralose. Who knows what's in the herbal sweetner packets. With sucralose, he's got a chemical name, formula, and reams of scientific studies.
I do know some people have allergic reactions to products with sucralose. If something bad is found later on, he can avoid anything that contains that chemical.
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Date: 5 Apr 2005 17:21 (UTC)I particularly like the argument that sucralose is bad because it's made of chlorine, the same chlorine that goes into your swimming pool!!!!1!eleven (As opposed to the same chlorine that goes into table salt!)
As one of my friends put it, as an alternative sweetner, he'd rather trust sucralose. Who knows what's in the herbal sweetner packets. With sucralose, he's got a chemical name, formula, and reams of scientific studies.
I do know some people have allergic reactions to products with sucralose. If something bad is found later on, he can avoid anything that contains that chemical.