Sucralose (Splenda) has killed MILLIONS of people!

Wait 'til Mr. Mercola finds out that some manufacturers are actually using dihydrogen monoxide in their foods!

Wait… Our bodies can’t metabolically break it down!

What is it doing to us?!?

Oh. Nothing.

You are, in all likelyhood, exactly right. As sweet as shit can be, anyway.

I doubt sucralose consumption would have a laxative effect, despite it’s amazingly poor absorbtion, simply because such tiny quantities are used. Sugar alcohols are most definitely laxatives, but they’re used in about the same mass as sugar, i.e. hundreds of times more than sucralose per unit of food.

A righteous pitting, for sure, which should be extended to people on this very board who perpetuate this bullshit. Fuck all of those who are so gullible and braindead that they buy into it. I even had a nurse-friend of my brother trying to tell me that artificial sweeteners in general are deadly killers. When asked to produce evidence, of course I got pages of printous from some piece of shit website. Like kaiwik, it’s particularly important to us because our son has diabetes, and these artificial sweeteners are a daily part of our lives.

Fortunately by the time this nurse-friend shared this bullshit information, we knew she was prone to believing and spreading completely false information (a great trait for a nurse, huh?). When my son was first diagnosed (at age 3), she came to visit us in the hospital. We hadn’t even had our training with the dietician yet to know what his diet would look like. She came in telling us that we would have to basically make all of our food from scratch (such as making our own pastas) and that his diet would be high in fruits and vegetables. Of course, this is complete bullshit, but it scared us fairly well at the time. I can’t stand dumbasses who spread medical misinformation. It can really be harmful.

At least it’s not as bad as margarine: that stuff’s ONE molecule away from being PLASTIC!!! :eek: :eek:

Most of the “syrupy mouth-feel” comes from high fructose corn syrup, not sugar. Mexican cokes & some high-end soft drinks are made with pure cane sugar & taste better. To me, that is.

For refreshment, I prefer non-sweetened ice tea. But splenda is definitely better than aspartame.

Eh? I thought fructose was a sugar. You’re right if you mean fructose is not sucrose, of course, but any aqueous solution with a high concentration of either is going to be bit syrupy. Fructose may indeed be more syrupy than sucrose at the needed concentration.

Mmmmm … plastic. Isn’t that what they make most Kraft singles out of?

I think people would be pretty shocked by the number of things that they eat which, with relatively little alteration, can be used to build car seats or whatever.

I like splenda better than aspartame. Both of them are best when I use just barely enough of it to get some sweetness - half a packet of splenda is all I need for a big glass of iced tea.

I got the “splenda is processed with chlorine and might have caused my otherwise unexplained neurological problems last year” lecture at the coffee machine at work one morning from a very intelligent engineer.

My mother still uses vast quantities of Sweet-n-Low, because she got used to that taste when that was the only sugar substitute available. I don’t know how she stands it.

It’s just amazing to me that people worry about the neurological impact of a few micrograms of an inert molecule like sucralose, after they partake of the stew of purine alkaloids* they’re getting from that cup of coffee they just dumped five tablespoons of cane sugar into while marching down the long road to killer headaches, night-sweats, palpitations, and type-II diabetes.

*Like caffeine. You do know it’s a purine alkaloid, don’t you? DON’T YOU??

Every single artifical sweetener, AND several non-artificial sweeteners have had scads of tin-foiled hatted crazies condeming it as the work of Satan.

Oddly, the one that hasn’t is honey, which is just impure sugar- and is the one which can be dangerous to babies.

Look for Kosher Coke around Passover, that’s made with real sugar. My husband likes it better, too.

Mmmm…Splenda. You can have my Splenda when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

I know! And it’s all over the place down here! You literally cannot drive from one end of town to the other without crossing over or under a huge patch of that nasty stuff!

I imagine that at random moments a fully formed non-stick pan would fall out of your ass.

Blech. But this is coming from someone who only uses aspartame. I hate Splenda too. At this point, I feel like I get to kill myself with whatever I choose. Some people use fatty foods, stress or death sports. I get diet soda. I tell people that when they start up with the “Don’t you know that stuff’ll kill you?” talk.

But I’ve never seen anything convincing that I’m slowly being killed by artificial sweeteners. I’m much more likely to blame caffeine when I finally kick the bucket. :slight_smile:

I do find Splenda has a different-enough taste from real sugar that it is slightly unsettling to my taste buds. So, what I do instead is mix it with approximately equal parts real sugar. At that point there is no discernible difference from real sugar and it’s roughly half the calories of the same quantity of real sugar, so … win/win.

I haven’t tried Stevia yet – the name itself is slightly disconcerting, like I’d be ingesting the crystallized distillation of parts of Steve – but some people swear by that instead. Meh, either way, conspiracy theorists claiming doctorates aren’t exactly high on my list of acceptable advice outlets.

If you ate enough sucralose, I wonder if it would make your turds taste sweet. To be sure, they would lack the “syrupy mouthfeel” of HFCS, but still…I can see a new fad among scatophiles on the horizon.

That would be my guess, but I’m afraid I’m not doing that little experiment. Lines need to be drawn, even for science.

Mercola also deserves a pitting for the anti-vax nonsense lining his catbox of a website. I see his arrogant bullshit repeated all over parenting forums everywhere. He’s a utter evil moron.