Splenda or Sucralose Side Effects are Dangerous and Poisons
The tabletop version, Splenda contains other ingredients and bulking agents that have some side effects and carcinogenic potential and should not be confused with pure sucralose. But for this article we’ll deal with the pure version of Sucralose.
Few human studies of safety have been published on sucralose. One small study of diabetic patients using the sweetener showed a statistically significant increase in glycosylated hemoglobin (Hba1C), which is a marker of long-term blood glucose levels and is used to assess glycemic control in diabetic patients. According to the FDA, “increases in glycosolation in hemoglobin imply lessening of control of diabetes.
Research in animals has shown that sucralose can cause many problems in rats, mice, and rabbits, such as:
* Shrunken thymus glands (up to 40% shrinkage)
* Enlarged liver and kidneys
* Atrophy of lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus
* Increased cecal weight
* Reduced growth rate
* Decreased red blood cell count
* Hyperplasia of the pelvis
* Extension of the pregnancy period
* Aborted pregnancy
* Decreased fetal body weights and placental weights
* Diarrhea
According to one source (Sucralose Toxicity Information Center), concerning the significant reduction in size of the thymus gland, “the manufacturer claimed that the sucralose was unpleasant for the rodents to eat in large doses and that starvation caused the shruken thymus glands.
Toxicologist Judith Bellin reviewed studies on rats starved under experimental conditions, and concluded that their growth rate could be reduced by as much as a third without the thymus losing a significant amount of weight (less than 7 percent). The changes were much more marked in rats fed on sucralose. While the animals’ growth rate was reduced by between 7 and 20 percent, their thymuses shrank by as much as 40 percent.
(New Scientist 23 Nov 1991, pg 13)”
Sucralose, a high-intensity sweetener, is made from sugar so it tastes like sugar. This is accomplished using a patented multi-step process that selectively replaces three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the sugar molecule with three chlorine atoms. The result is an exceptionally stable sweetener that keeps sugars taste without sugars calories and carbohydrates. After consumption it passes through the body without being metabolized or broken down. Sucralose is approximately six hundred times sweeter than sugar, and as a result, only small amounts are necessary in a product.
Sucralose underwent the FDA’s rigorous food additive approval process, and in 1998, the FDA approved sucralose for use in 15 food and beverage categories, the broadest initial approval ever given to a food additive. The FDA has never required any warning label or information statements on products containing sucralose.
Sucralose has been approved for use in more than 40 countries worldwide. Canada approved sucralose in 1991, Australia and Mexico in 1993. Regulatory agencies have also approved the use of sucralose in Brazil, China, Japan, in various Latin American, Asian, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern countries. In 1990, the safety of sucralose was confirmed by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA). JECFA is an international body of experts whose safety evaluation of food additives is relied upon by the regulatory agencies of many smaller countries.
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I always thought it was safer. I’ll definitely be looking into this. I use real sugar as much as possible (99.9% of the time) but there are times when I have used Splenda with others saying how helathy it is. Good to know…
I can’t believe how many products have Splenda in it. Even some of the flavored water contain sucralose.
my grandmother’s a splenda addict and seems within 6 months of use one of her eyes have been giving her problems, making things appeared warped and other issues that the eye doctor thinks her eye had a bleed. She’s been treated, laid off the splenda for a bit, went back on and her eye is acting up again. She’s wondering if there’s a link, I say there’s an obvious link. The eye doctor can’t figure out the cause.
Does she have a enourmous arm or have bulges coming out of her neck. Some of the side effects have prolonged consumption of Splenda.
no, nothing in that way, she has the big puffy old lady arms, but she’s had those since long before Splenda came out.
I wrote a post not too long ago slamming V8 for putting sucralose in it’s V8 Splash beverage without any notation of it anywhere except in the very small list of ingredients. I’m glad to see other people acknowledging that Splenda is NOT the answer to our collective weight loss prayers.
My post is here if you want to read it: http://propsandpans.izzymom.com/?p=19
Just when you think something is good for you,… BAM, a study like this comes out.
Have you tried some drinks with Splenda? I swear this like a powdery after taste and I can only imagine what I’m swallowing.
Whenever I have anything with sucralose in it, I get a bad taste in my mouth lasting aproximately 8 hours. I know this is not psychosomatic because it happens when I consume some by accident and unknowingly. It is a big red flag to get me reading the fine print on whatever I recently had. It’s how I found out sucralose is in Airborne. Anyway, I was wondering if this happens to anyone else.
Splenda has helped me lose weight. It may not be proven safe or harmful yet, but being over weight has been prove to be dangerous to a person’s health. Could it be worth the trade off? And if you are one a a small minority who experience an offensive after taste (never had any such thing personally) and it is lasting as long as 8 hours, according to some – brush your teeth. It helps promote oral health as well!
I get the same thing – I try to avoid it – but recently accidentally had some light yogurt, light miracle whip and sugar free pickles – it leaves almost a metallic taste in my mouth that lasts LONG after I brush my teeth. Of course, now, I’m beginning to wonder if my toothpaste also contains splenda and I’ve missed it on the list of ingredients somehow? I never thought to look until I switched toothpastes and have noticed that I can’t get rid of the taste.
It also makes me extremely strangely thirsty – apparently until I can wash the stuff out of my body.
There are safer ways to lose weight than splenda. Such as cutting out the things that contain splenda completely. Soda is not good for you whether it has splenda or HFCS in it.
I think I’m lucky that the artificial sweeteners all leave me with such a nasty taste that I would rather not have any sweetener in something than I would have the aftertaste. If I want something sweet – I have a small piece of something with real sugar – I just don’t have very much of it.
at least with being overweight – you know the side effects. With this additive – you don’t know what they are.
Looks like Splenda is coming out as really having serious side effects.
I would like the citation of the research that is being referred to. All the research that I have found indicates no serious harmful side affects that are mentioned in this here with the exception of the atropy of the thymus and spleen nodes.
The rat studies showing bad effects are because they use ridiculous amounts of sucralose over small period of time to “mimic” the normal use of it for years (40-50 years)
Scientists are testing everything that way which I’m not sure it’s a good way of testing stuff as the human body adapts itself from everything thrown at it… If you feed someone with 2 pounds of sugar a day for 3 years in a row, that person will get sick and get a lot of problems but, feed the same person with the same amount of sugar, 3 pounds, over 20 years, not the same results… If it’s true that scientists are testing their stuff that way, we’re in a lot of troubles IMO….
I suffer from diabetes and for me, splenda in small pouches is the way to go for my cofee and I won’t die because of it! I would if I used sugar!
Bottom line!
Does anyone know of someone having “tingling” and feelings of an “insect biting” them on arms, legs and abdomen? I have these symptons and just thought of stopping sucralose!
I’ve been selling a Candida Elimination Program that works and is inexpensive. Many people are getting well because of my showing them how to kill out yeast and fungus cheaply. Sucralose is a part of the cure. It’s strange that Canadians who have used sucralose, since 1991, aren’t complaining about having adverse reactions to it. They must not be having them.
When this stuff started to get pushed on the American market, I immediately told my grandparents not to buy into it (even though I didn’t have facts to back it up). Knowing that the FDA approved Aspartame, which still is heavily on market, I knew it couldn’t be trusted. For all of you with Diabetes and other problems, the best solution is Agave syrup(comes from same plant as Tequila), Stevia, Honey or Maple Syrup. That’s 4 solid sweeteners that come from tree’s and plants and have absolutely no side effects. There is no excuse as to why you would choose any altered substances over these.
While I realize Splenda is actually a commercial name for Sucralose, your article is confusing. In the first half you detail the dangers of Splenda, but in the second half, you describe Sucralose in a positive light i.e.: how it is made and been approved by health organizations.
I think the point of the second half is that you cannot trust it just because it is FDA approved. Seeing the facts about it, then reading that the FDA approved it, should alarm us, correct?
When you put it that way, it does make sense…maybe my mind have been dulled by sugar
I have been living off of splenda for a couple years and yes I get the tingling feeling all over!
Your article has a lot of useful information that was not in other sites that I looked at about this.
I tried a tiny bit of raspberry preserves with Sucralose in it, just to settle an argument and it tasted like hell. Splenda isn’t splendid. It’s horrid. Why do they add this crap to something already sweet and pure, like fruit preserves ????? Gag !
Don’t use Splenda at all!
I like to say sucralose, not Splenda, because that is what Splenda is. And it is in a lot of stuff Sadly, the package doesn’t have to say Splenda, or diet, to have sucralose in it. You have to read labels. So, you might still be using it and don’t even know it!
A lot of people, including myself, have gotten/are getting sick from it.
Many people don’t get any symptoms at all
Sucralose is poison. It ruined five years of my life. I had a laundry list of medical problems while taking it. I went to several doctors. I had a dozen different tests. I was told that I had a number of different problems. I was on different medication for many years.
The slogan, “Made from sugar…” is very misleading. Splenda might be made from sugar, but it is far from sugar. The resulting chemical is a class of chemicals called organochloride. Organochlorides are typically poisonous.
carbon monoxide – made from oxygen so its like a breath of fresh air.
Check out what others are saying
http://www.foodanddiet.com/NewFiles/splenda-story-list.html
http://www.belicove.com/archives/beliblog/000651.html
http://splendasickness.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtwUfbKiWmY&ref=mf
Check out organochlorides
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organochlorides
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Organochloride
Check out Duke University study
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18800291
More interesting Links
http://www.thepeopleschemist.com/view_learning.php?learning_id=14
http://jstevens.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/how-sucralose-aka-splenda-is-made-and-why-you-want-to-avoid-it/
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-to-aspartame-and-sucralose
almost everything today contains sucralose or some other
artificial sweetner like stevia or lua hon etc. basicly you just have to
read and research the product before you buy or just buy all natural
foods.
I had terrible problems associated with Splenda. I got very depressed and terrible anxiety, with panic attacks. I ended up in the ER 4 times in the period of 3 months with heart racing, legs weak, light headedness. I thought I was having a heart attack. Also, had diarrhea, and lots lots lots of heart palpitations. Finally, when I realized that all this started after i started using splenda, i totally cut it out of my diet and read every label on everything to make sure there is no sucralose or splenda in it. It took months to get out of my system, and i finally stopped having the major panic attacks and anxiety after about a year. The point is, though, that not everyone reacts the same way. Some of us have a sensitivity or allergy to splenda and others can eat it and have no side effects. I wish, though, that doctors would ask a patient about any artificial sweeteners in his/her diet, instead of going through many er and doctor visits, testing, etc…. when if they would just tell the patient to stop consuming it for a few months to see if they improve, that may be all the person needs. I had to finally mention it to my doctor. And he said, “Oh, I didn’t think of asking you that, but it can cause a lot of problems in some patients. You should only eat natural substances, all those artificial sweeteners are not good for you.” WEll , DUH!!!
Melissa,
I too had symptoms identical to yours. I stopped using sucralose in 2005.
I never thought that ignorance was a prerequisite to being a doctor. But, it is.
I know doctors, one of them a family member, who deem sucralose to be safe and completely ignore my story!
I have not only stopped using sucralose, I only eat organic and/or all natural foods. I have to admit, as a 53 year old man, I feel the best today as I have felt in at least 20 years.
Splenda is POISON. Period.
Personally, it spikes my blood pressure to dangerous levels. I’m normally dead on the gold standard of 120/80. If I have even the smallest bit of sucralose, it jumps to 150/100 causing headaches, dizziness, irritability, malaise, etc. I’m a healthy 31 year old male with no prior health issues. I stopped the products with sucralose (propel water mainly) and I’ve NEVER had the issue again. I advise ANY patient that walks up to my pharmacy that Splenda is POISON and to NEVER use it.
Donovan M. Haddix RPh
Does anyone know of Sucralose being associated with short term memory loss? I’ve increased use of Splenda recently and have also experienced short term memory loss which concerns me.
Yes, there are a lot of people, me included, that had experienced loss of memory.
I’m a 59 year old male. Reasonably healthy. I’ve been using sucralose for years. I mail ordered it from Australia before it was available in the US. It tastes fine to me, and I don’t have any side effect. I have no doubt that some people hate the taste (my sister can’t stand it.) I always hated the taste of saccharin, while others just love it. And stevia leaves a rotten aftertaste in my mouth. So I don’t use those products. People react to things differently, and some people have a sensitivity to things that most don’t. If you are sensitive to sucralose, then don’t use it. It’s just that simple. As far as stevia and the other “natural” products being superior, what in the world does “natural” have to do with anything. Poison ivy is natural. Cyanide is natural. Hemlock (conium) is natural. Natural doesn’t automatically mean safe, either. Oh, and a question for the pharmacist who says sucralose is poison. Do you sell any Splenda, or sucrolose-sweeted products in you pharmacy? Hmmm. Thought so.