#SPLENDA

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Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cookies (SF)

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Fun Facts. 100% verified.

Splenda was originally marketed under the brandname Diet Sugar.

Several of the dis tracks on Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department are about actor Alfonso Ribeiro.

Pope John XXIII considered it a sin to have soup in a cup.

The official state song of Kentucky is Toni Basil's "Mickey".

When he was working in Hollywood, author William Faulkner filled the backyard of his Santa Monica estate with possums that he named after characters in his novels.

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Sugar cube

A packet of Splenda and a non-licensed alternative reading "Not Sugar".

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Splenda Corruption, by Matt Williams for The Guardian US.

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This does not surprise me at all. They push these artificial sweeteners out with minimal testing and no regard at all to potential long-term health impacts.

The sweetener in question is Sucralose, the main ingredient of Splenda.

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Sucralose aka Splenda Is Genotoxic | June 2023

Me: Big Food sells us low quality at high prices that makes us gradually sicker then Big Pharma sells us high priced meds to control the symptoms until we need Big Hospital and a funeral. Think I'm exaggerating? Read on.

"When we exposed sucralose and sucralose-6-acetate to gut epithelial tissues—the tissue that lines your gut wall—we found that both chemicals cause 'leaky gut.' Basically, they make the wall of the gut more permeable. The chemicals damage the 'tight junctions,' or interfaces, where cells in the gut wall connect to each other.

"A leaky gut is problematic, because it means that things that would normally be flushed out of the body in feces are instead leaking out of the gut and being absorbed into the bloodstream."

"We found that gut cells exposed to sucralose-6-acetate had increased activity in genes related to oxidative stress, inflammation and carcinogenicity,"

"To put this in context, the European Food Safety Authority has a threshold of toxicological concern for all genotoxic substances of 0.15 micrograms per person per day," Schiffman says. "Our work suggests that the trace amounts of sucralose-6-acetate in a single, daily sucralose-sweetened drink exceed that threshold. And that's not even accounting for the amount of sucralose-6-acetate produced as metabolites after people consume sucralose."

Harvard says: "Some studies show that leaky gut may be associated with other autoimmune diseases (lupus, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis), chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, arthritis, allergies, asthma, acne, obesity, and even mental illness." 

Splenda.com says: "Today, the Splenda brand is the most recognizable and iconic low-calorie sweetener brand in the world, having sold more than 100 billion yellow packets since its launch in 1992."

Michael Zeece, in Introduction to the Chemistry of Food, 2020 says: "Granulated sucralose is mixed with fillers to provide a measure for measure substitution with table sugar (sucrose). The powdered form of sucralose contains 90% bulking agents such as maltodextrin, that are a metabolizable form of carbohydrate. A 50/50 mixture of sucrose and sucralose, plus a bulking agent, is available for baking applications. This mixture reduces caloric content and enables browning reactions in baking applications."  Source

Me: Wow. Ok. 50/50 sugar/Splenda plus bulking agents for baking. Would that mean commercial baking? Processed foods? YES!!!

"Sucralose is also highly stable at elevated temperatures that are often used in food, beverage, and drug manufacturing processes so that product sweetness levels can be maintained following cooking, baking, and/or pasteurization. Sucralose also has excellent stability in low-pH products so that sweetness degradation is not a determining factor in the shelf-life of such products."

FDA says "Sucralose is a general-purpose sweetener found in various foods, including baked goods, beverages, chewing gum, gelatins, and frozen dairy desserts." 

By weight, Sucralose is about 600 times sweeter than sucrose (sugar).

 Me: Even if I don't buy or use Splenda or drink diet sodas there is a good chance that I'm still eating more than 0.15 micrograms of sucralose in "shelf stable" cookies, pastries, bread or ice cream. Big Food cuts in Sucralose/Splenda because it gives big sweetness and probably costs less than natural sugar/sucrose.

The FDA approved it for general use in 1999. They suggest it for diabetic people! No wonder Celiac Disease, Crohn's disease, and irritable bowel syndrome have steadily increased.

Never mind the Leaky Gut diseases or the malignant tumors, Splenda is calorie-free. /facepalm

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Splenda - Hương vị ngọt tự nhiên, sức khỏe không đường

Chúng tôi hân hạnh giới thiệu sản phẩm cao cấp này đến bạn. Splenda sử dụng một thành phần chính là sucralose, một đường tổng hợp từ đường mà không có calo. Điều này cho phép Splenda mang đến hương vị ngọt tự nhiên, mà không tăng nồng độ đường trong cơ thể, làm giảm nguy cơ béo phì và các vấn đề liên quan đến đường. Đừng ngại! Nhấp vào đường link để đặt hàng và tận hưởng sự thú vị của sản phẩm: https://lnkd.in/ghejUgNT

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mornin coffee

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Amazon thanks me for purchasing SPLENDA and wants me to try this new product! It's Splenda.

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A Little Sweetness

Sometimes a little marketing goes a long way. I recently bought a package of Splenda –those cute little packages that I use in my morning coffee. This particular package made me smile. Repeatedly. . The front of the package is simple and what I have come to expect. But the other sides were the sweet part. . . . Aren’t these just the best little messages ever? I needed some positivity and…

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FOOD: Sweet n Low and other "artificial" sweeteners

Sweet!

My current employer has dropped Sweet n Low from its roster of artificial sweetness. To be sure Sweet n Low isn’t exactly “Sweet n Low” as generic Sweet Time offerings are employed in an effort to stem ever rising COGS. When a guest orders tea, and my employer sells precious little coffee, 4 packets of sugar, 4 packs of Sweet n Low, 4 packets of Equal, 4 packs of Splenda and 4 packs of Stevia…

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Strawberry Dessert - Vegan Strawberry Gelato This vegan strawberry gelato recipe offers a different take on the traditional frozen treat.

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BC Cherry Jam When juicy, sweet cherries are in season, making your own homemade jam is a great way to store up a taste of summer for later in the year.

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Whoever read this study and reported on it needs a refresher on how to evaluate methods and results. Literally the only wholly in vivo test the authors did was completely negative to their claims. But this was wholly glossed over in the discussion. Not to mention the article mentions, "leaky gut syndrome." A condition that infamously doesn't exist. This is just bad science. And horrible science reporting.

@mindblowingscience? More like mind-numbing pseudoscience.

The chemical is also found in trace amounts in the sweetener itself. The finding raises questions about how the sweetener may contribute to health problems.

Previous work by the researchers established that several fat-soluble compounds are produced in the gut after sucralose ingestion. One of these compounds is sucralose-6-acetate.

“Our new work establishes that sucralose-6-acetate is genotoxic,” says Susan Schiffman, corresponding author of the study and an adjunct professor in the joint department of biomedical engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “We also found that trace amounts of sucralose-6-acetate can be found in off-the-shelf sucralose, even before it is consumed and metabolized.

“To put this in context, the European Food Safety Authority has a threshold of toxicological concern for all genotoxic substances of 0.15 micrograms per person per day,” Schiffman says.

“Our work suggests that the trace amounts of sucralose-6-acetate in a single, daily sucralose-sweetened drink exceed that threshold. And that’s not even accounting for the amount of sucralose-6-acetate produced as metabolites after people consume sucralose.”

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