Will you be surprised when I tell you that saccharin is safe to use, and always has been? Yup, I’m talking about the pink pack.
“What!” you say. “I thought saccharin caused cancer.”
Well, here is yet another example from 50 years ago of the misinformation and propaganda that mainstream media, Big Pharma, and government agencies have been pumping out for decades.
Fifty years ago at the same time aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal®) first came on the market, the FDA and Monsanto Chemical Company started a campaign to convince you that saccharin caused cancer.
This wasn’t true, but it was Monsanto’s way to get the original sugar substitute, saccharin, out of the way so their new money-maker, aspartame, could corner the market and make them the big bucks that saccharin never produced.
To date, saccharin was, and still remains, one of the safer artificial sweeteners to use today – if you insist on using an artificial sweetener, that is.
Why?
Because saccharin never caused cancer in the lab rats or in any human, and the FDA made a deal with Monsanto in the 1960s when they proposed a cancer warning on the pink saccharin packets.
Haven’t you wondered why they left saccharin on the market after it was labeled a carcinogen?
I bet you didn’t know at the time saccharin was labeled a carcinogen, it was also agreed upon by Monsanto and the FDA that this cancer warning would be removed in the year 2000. It, indeed, was taken off of the pink packets in 2001, right before Splenda came on the American market.
The diet sweetener manufacturers have been working together all this time to control the diet sweetener market – for over 50 years.
In the saccharin cancer studies done in the 1960s and 70s, research from the manufacturers by the way, saccharin was blended with cyclamate, and the amount of both saccharin and cyclamate given to the lab rats was enough to warrant animal abuse because it was too high. They fed those poor lab rats equivalent to 600 cans of diet soda a day.
The cancer causing agent was the cyclamate – not the saccharin.
Needless to say, these safety studies were biased, shoddy and flawed, and they were done so aspartame could take over the market.
Saccharin
Saccharin is made in the laboratory today from all synthesized ingredients, but its original simplicity was the key to its ability to be used by your body as a safer chemical sugar substitute, especially for diabetics.
Compared to the other manmade chemical sugars, saccharin is not as “toxically chemically combined”, and is still one of the safer choices for diabetics from the group of manufactured sugar replacements.
Years Of Safe Use
As a kid in the 1960s, I watched my dad use tiny, white pellets of saccharin in his daily morning coffee. Daddy started using saccharin in India during WWII in the 1940s. Saccharin was brought to India from China, where it was made from a plant root in China.
Even back then, the amount of saccharin used was very small because it is bitter if you use too much.
Monsanto didn’t make enough money off these tiny saccharin pellets, and the first soft drinks using saccharin just didn’t taste good. Tab® and Fresca® didn’t make the millions that diet colas with aspartame have made the Big Corps.
Hence, saccharin gets labeled a carcinogen at the same time aspartame came on the market – both products owned by Monsanto Chemical Company.
Typical for today’s “science”, saccharin never caused cancer and was labeled a carcinogen, and aspartame DID cause cancer in lab rats, but has never been labeled a carcinogen.
Monsanto
Does it surprise anyone that Monsanto was behind saccharin’s ban?
In 1902, Monsanto gained its reputation manufacturing saccharin, the company’s first product. In 1903 to 1905, their entire saccharin output was shipped to the growing soft drink company in Georgia called Coca-Cola®.
In 1917, the U.S. government filed suit over the safety of saccharin. Filed at Monsanto’s request as a test case, the suit was dismissed in 1925, ending the government’s unsuccessful attempts to prove saccharin as harmful.
In 1981, saccharin was again questioned as a carcinogen, but no conclusive scientific proof was ever presented. In 2001, the cancer warning was removed from saccharin products as saccharin was shown, once again, to be safe for human consumption.
Actually, it never really mattered to Monsanto if you picked the pink or blue packet because for over twenty years Monsanto Chemical Company owned both products (saccharin and aspartame). Blue or pink – they won your dollar.
In the year 2000, they sold their sweetener division for $440 million, just in time for the competitor’s yellow packet of Splenda® to join the sweetener market.
So, Is Saccharin Safe To Use?
I don’t advocate using any of the artificial sweeteners made in a laboratory, but based on its history and the research – saccharin is your safest bet when choosing a colored sweetener packet placed on your dining table. Especially for diabetics.
Saccharin has never done harm to people like the blue, yellow, or white packets.
Hum, I wonder if it’s still used in the bottled Coca Cola formula that still made in Mexico?
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