Splendid Splenda?


misc/truth_about_splenda Someone posted the following links to the Frozen Assets yahoo list. What the heck IS Splenda anyway?

truthaboutsplenda.com (Website by the unbiased Sugar Association)

Sucralose Toxicity Info (Article on the health aspects of consuming chlorinated sucrose derivatives – there are also articles on the dangers of aspartame on this website… see below)

NPR Market Place
(A 2/08/05 broadcast from NPR when Splenda took the sugar industry to court, claiming they had been the target of false and misleading reports.)

Take it with a grain of…er… sugar if you must, but I always favor educated decisions.

While you’re being educated, here’s a Snopes article on Aspartame (which is not in Splenda).


3 responses to “Splendid Splenda?”

  1. Hmmm…. the sugar industry going to battle with Splenda. I’m sure their report will be unbiased. Next, we’ll be showing you a story about how beef causes cancer, sponsored by the poultry industry.

  2. Ha ha ha!

    “Splenda is an artificial sweetener made from a chemical compound that includes chlorine.”

    Guess what… so does sodium chloride… salt.

    You may also want to check out this page warning us about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide.

  3. Yeah, I had a laugh, too, about the unbiased information presented by the Sugar Association. I didn’t even know there was such an association. If anything, false advertising isn’t cool. The Dihydrogen Monoxide thing was a real science experiment on gullibility by a 9th grader. Smart kid 😉