How Safe Is Sucralose and Splenda?

Splenda uses sucralose as it’s sweetener, although the packets are largely filler so that the same amount of Splenda and sugar are approximately just as sweet as each other.Initially, I wasn't sure how safe sucralose really is. Many say that it's completely safe, but is it true?Will it cause side effects?

Of course there are side effects.  There are side effects with everything.Additives, medicines, fat, sugar, and even fruits all have some kind of side effects.  Especially if you consume an exhorbitant amount of any of them.Carrots can carry the side effect of changing the color of your skin if you eat too many of them.  You won’t suddenly look like a carrot or an orange, but your skin will start to change color.

So, what are the side effects of sucralose and, by extension, Splenda?  Sucralose can cause immunological problems, lower the good bacteria in your intestines by up to 50%, and even cause DNA damage!  Sounds awful, doesn't it?There is a catch, though.  The amounts of Splenda required to cause these problems are pretty large.An admittedly wide range, 68 to 680 packets of Splenda per day would be required to cause a 150 pound person to have 50% less good bacteria in their intestines.  So, if you limit yourself to around 10 packets per day, there’s virtually no danger of that.  For the more serious problems, though, the required amounts of Splenda are absolutely massive.  In order for Splenda to cause immunological problems, the same person weighing 150 pounds would have to ingest around 17,200 splenda packets per day for approximately a month.  Good luck with testing that one.  That is a whole lot of Splenda.DNA damage can actually occur if you have around 11,450 packets per day, but even that is just too ridiculous to imagine somebody doing unless it was on purpose!

But, honestly, what if you had the same amount of sugar instead of Splenda?  The recommended daily intake volume of sugar is around 40 grams.Sugar and Splenda are both packaged in 1 gram packets, so that is 40 packets of sugar per day.  While 68 sugar packets (the minimum number of Splenda packets to make a significant impact on the good bacteria in your intestines) a day probably won't cause huge problems other than a tendency towards obesity, if you bring that to 680 packets a day, you'll probably feel horrible all of the time, not to mention that you will most likely develop diabetes pretty quickly.  But if you had 17,200 packets of sugar per day?  You would probably pass out and potentially go into cardiac arrest from ridiculously high blood sugar!On top of dieing, you'll probably have diabetes before tomorrow, which would surely be a world record… one that I would recommend trying not to break.It would seem that Splenda might actually be safer than standard sugar.

But what about other artificial sweeteners like aspartame?  Well, I would do some research before trying any others, but since Splenda and sucralose is widely regarded as the safest of them, why would you go for anything less?

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