About 600 people were chosen for a poll about use of Splenda in their tea and coffee. 70% of those confirmed to using it while the remaining did not. Splenda is an artificial sweetener that is suppose to be 600 times sweeter than sugar and its one of the new products on the racks in the stores. Splenda is generally called sucralose.
Splenda can be used as a direct substitute for sugar as well as added while preparing sweets at home or desserts in the form of sugar syrup or otherwise. The frequently debated issue regarding use of Splenda is, does Splenda cause cancer?
Splenda is one of the most extensively tested food ingredients ever introduced in the market. Leading medical, scientific and regulatory authorities around the world including Food and Drug Association in the US have approved Splenda as safe for human consumption.
Study on 110 humans and animals were done before pronouncing it safe for human consumption. Use of Splenda has been studied and observed closely connecting it with neurological, carcinogenic and reproductive and effects but none have been found.
The debate whether use of Splenda causes cancer or not began when saccharine was once found linked to bladder development in lab rat in the 1970s during a saccharine trial and ever since the story is doing rounds and the researchers have failed to get rid of the stigma.
The debate whether Splenda is safe for children or not also corps up time and again. But no study has confirmed that it is bad for pregnant women and children than any natural sweetener can be. It is safe for diabetic patients. It’s safe for people who are trying to lose weight. While processing Splenda all the extra calories that sugar generally contains is taken care of.
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I still have heard so much about Splenda being linked to brain cancer. Are there any other artificial sweetners available that are not linked to any type of deleterious side effects?
Thanks,
Janine
All my friends say that Splenda causes cancer but i knew it wasnt. Thanks for the proof!
Linked to cancer? Where is this link that people have ‘heard’ of? Where are the clinical studies. A
Are there any other websites you would suggest viewing in regards to Splenda’s “link to cancer”?
I am now a sixty-five year old caucasian male, and I have been using Sucralose (Splenda) almost exclusively since the year 2000 (right after I had quadruple by-pass surgery), and I have had zero known effects from it. I still consume regular food including pasta, but place limits my simple carb intake; I do use complex carbs. I recently quit drinking soda with Splenda because of the phosphoric acid used in colas, but substituted diet green tea or ginger tea with Splenda, and get decalf when possible. I follow Dr. Oz somewhat, but not exclusively, I have moderate exercise, and I take vitamin supplements too; including 2500IU of extra vitamin D3 daily. Also, I do not smoke or use any form of tobacco. My alcohol intake is limited to Passover or an occasional (sip or two); I am not Jewish, but like Magen David Pomegranate wine.
So far (after eleven years) I am cancer free, still capable of making love unassisted, and have extra low LDL cholesterol. Moreover, my IQ is still near 176, my vision is approximately 20/30 and uncorrected. I do not suffer from migraines, brittle bones or GERT. My triglycerides are a little bit high, because I am not a strict vegetarian, but I do use Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) when I fry (eggs, french toast, etc).
I am not saying that a day of reckoning isn’t coming, because type 2 diabetes does run in my mother’s side of the family, but as of now I have avoided it. Maybe, just maybe, it is not Splenda that is to blame, as some claim, for cancers, etc., but LIFESTYLE. Well, I gotta go and walk my two sweet and loving Red Nosed Pitbulls. They adore me so !