There is so much to say about how sucralose (sold as Splenda®) has been marketed to us as “safe” … “splendid” … “made from sugar.” We have been deceived about the safety of sucralose.
Sucralose is made in a lab, and its primary ingredient is chlorine that is held in place by a slew of toxic chemicals.
Here’s Splenda’s chemical formula: 1,6-dichloro-1, 6-dideoxy-BETA-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-D-galactopyranoside.
Sucralose (Splenda) is marketed as simply a benign sugar made with a touch of chlorine, After you read the list of toxic chemicals used to keep it “together”, you’ll understand that it’s not healthy for you.
How Splenda Is Made
Using a complex process involving dozens of chemicals that you and I can barely pronounce – let alone consume – I have listed the actual process that creates this diet sweetener. I highlighted the “sneaky chemicals” 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, a poison) in the presence of sodium methoxide to produce sucralose.
The Hidden Chemicals
The chemicals used in the lab to synthesize sucralose in the five-step process (above) are more than just simple benign sugar with a touch of chlorine as they want you to believe. The chemicals used to make sucralose (Splenda) are:
- Acetone
- Acetic acid
- Acetyl alcohol
- Acetic anhydride
- Ammonium chloride
- Benzene
- Chlorinated sulfates
- Ethyl alcohol
- Isobutyl ketones
- Formaldehyde
- Hydrogen chloride
- Lithium chloride
- Methanol
- Sodium methoxide
- Sulfuryl chloride
- Trityl chloride
- Toluene
- Thionyl chloride
It’s time to admit that there is no free ticket to eating all the sugar-free products you want without paying a high price of harming your body in the long run. Laboratory chemicals are not the sugar-free solution to eating less sugar.
Filling you body full of chemicals isn’t worth using Splenda/sucralose. It certainly doesn’t sound very appetizing to me.
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