how safe is sucralose?

hey, michelle. thanks for running this post. i did a bit of a research about sucralose to enable to respond here, and guess what? it's found to be more carcinogenic, and the human body is not able to detoxify itself of organochlorine compounds, as in the case of sucralose. for more, info, check out the link below. (i'm sorry to post this --- i feel i just had to for everyone else's info before we all get too excited about sucralose and splenda) http://www.downtoearth.org/articles/sucralose_danger.htm

My school of thought is to not trust anything man made. Seriously, I wish I could have everything natural. I think that artificial sweetners are juat as bad for a person as refined sugar, if not worse. I could be paranoid too though, so take that into consideration.

I used artificial sweetners for years and years untill I read what it did too animals and there and then I stopped them , I now have black coffee with nothing but water in it , I have now cut that down to just 1 cup and its decaffenated xx

I don't know much about sucralose but The other day on TV I saw a show about something called Stevia. It is a plant that you can grow in your back yard. They were picking the leaves and eating them. They said to boil the leaves to get the sweetness out for cooking, and recommended that you go to a garden center to get the plants, since it is difficult to grow from seed. This might be something to consider.

hey well it may be good for people suffering from diabetes as they are not allowed to eat sweeet things. so 4 them its good and also can be used as good sweetener it is known to be atleast 200 times more sweet than sugar. and if some of it fall on your hand then in that case you would be having its effect on your hand for a long time.

Stevia is an excellent source of sweetener. Its sweeter than sugar, comes from a plant, and has no affect on glucose levels. You can get a plant and grow it yourself, dry it and grind it. Or if green sweetener turns you off you can get it in liquid or non-chemically processed white at a health food store.

I've gotten rid of all my artificial sweeteners too. I don't buy anything with them in it. I think sucralose is also artificial. For a no-calorie sweetener, I like stevia. It's an all-natural herb that's much sweeter than sugar. It actually helps prevent gum disease and tooth decay. It increases glucose tolerance and helps improve digestion.

Well I have to use artificial sweetners and hermesetas, is the one that I use it is a lot better than all the others as recently they found out I have sugar diabeties and so I had to reduce the sugar intake I was on and I have found this one to be very affect without any side affects.

I don't use anything artificial, and hardly anything that is not completely organic. Sweeteners I use: succanat, fructose, maple syrup, sugar in the raw. Also molasses. Depends on what needs sweetened! I trust stevia, but it lumps up in cold beverages so I don't use it that often. I believe stevia is low in calories, if that's why you're looking for something other than straight-up fructose... it's pretty good. I know lots of people who swear by it.

I don't think they know enought about sucralose yet since it is pretty new. To my knowledge, there aren't any bad side effects that they have come out with. I would think it would still give you a spike in your blood sugar though since it is made with sugar. I personally don't like it as much as Equal. I don't think that's aspertame but I'm not sure. I think it's one of the other ones that isn't as bad for you. I think aspertame is sweet and low.

according to me its harmfull.

Sicralose is pretty benign. i use it all the time. In fact, it is all i use if i can help it. i stay away from sugar if i can avoid it.

Anything artificial is bad for your body, because it is not natural. You would be better of taking a teaspoon of real sugar. I rather have a real peace of chocolate or a piece of candy once in a while then eating sweets with artificial sugar. A friend of mine told me, that he has a friend who was in a lot of joint pain and all kinds of problems and never felt good, till she stopped drinking diet soda. Apparantely she is feeling fine now.

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I don't know how safe it is, but I'm leary of anything artificial. I can't stand the taste of the artificial sweetners. They leave a bad taste in my mouth. If I get too much of it I get a headache too. That's even just from one can of pop with an artificial sweetner in it. I think if it bothers me like that, it can't be good for me and do question how safe it is.

Long-term human studies with sucralose had not been performed, till that consider it as safe.

I have been using artificial sweetners, and I find so far no problem. Especially for milk, without sweetner, I can't drink. It also acts as a very good slimmer.

sucralose is not a safe thing to use