The manipulation of the truth isn’t new. We are seeing it more clearly today, but the Big Corps and the government agencies created to protect public health and wellness have been in cahoots for many decades. I know you don’t need more issues to worry about, but it’s important to keep exposing the truth about how diet sweeteners are harming your health.
The artificial sweeteners have been harming your health ever since NutraSweet/Equal® came on the market in the 1980s. Saccharin never caused cancer, and Splenda (made from sucralose) causes a myriad of health problems.
The sweetener makers don’t want YOU knowing the truth because the same companies that sell the artificial sweeteners make lots of money selling YOU the medications for the side-effects diet sweeteners cause.
If you’ve been told that sucralose (Splenda) is a better choice, just know that it isn’t. Here are some reasons why Splenda isn’t a healthy choice …
The Chemicals In Splenda
Splenda is actually chlorinated sugar, and the chemicals used to make sucralose in the lab are more than just simple sugar with a touch of chlorine.
Sucralose (Splenda) is made using (in alphabetical order):
- Acetone
- Acetic acid
- Acetyl alcohol
- Acetic anhydride
- Ammonium chloride
- Benzene
- Chlorinated sulfates
- Ethyl alcohol
- Formaldehyde
- Hydrogen chloride
- Isobutyl ketones
- Lithium chloride
- Methanol
- Sodium methoxide
- Sulfuryl chloride
- Trityl chloride
- Toluene
- Thionyl chloride
There is no free ticket to eating all the sugar-free products you want without paying the high price of harming your body in the long run. Laboratory chemicals are not the sugar-free solution to weight loss or health and wellness, but the manufacturers want you to think they are.
How Splenda Is Made
This five-step process is how Splenda is made:
Using a complex process involving the dozens of chemicals above, I have listed the actual process for producing this diet sweetener. I highlighted the “chemicals used” in bold.
According to the Splenda International Patent A23L001-236 and PEP Review #90-1-4 (July 1991), sucralose is synthesized by this five-step process:
1. sucrose is tritylated with trityl chloride in the presence of dimethylformamide and 4–methylmorpholine and the tritylated sucrose is then acetylated with acetic anhydride,
2. the resulting TRISPA (6,1′,6′-tri-O-trityl-penta-O-acetylsucrose) is chlorinated with hydrogen chloride in the presence of toluene,
3. the resulting 4-PAS (sucrose 2,3,4,3′,4′-pentaacetate) is heated in the presence of methyl isobutyl ketone and acetic acid,
4. the resulting 6-PAS (sucrose 2,3,6,3′,4′-pentaacetate) is chlorinated with thionyl chloride in the presence of toluene and benzyltriethylammonium chloride, and
5. the resulting TOSPA (sucralose pentaacetate) is treated with methanol (wood alcohol found in aspartame) in the presence of sodium methoxide to produce sucralose.
And there you have it!
The toxic chemicals used to make Splenda certainly don’t sound appetizing to me.
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