{"id":354,"date":"2009-03-25T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T12:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/03\/is-splenda-safe.html"},"modified":"2009-03-25T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T12:24:05","slug":"is-splenda-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2009\/03\/is-splenda-safe.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Splenda Safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been hearing a lot of bad buzz about Splenda.<br \/>\n&#8220;Many body-conscious people opt for artificial sweeteners instead of sugar when they want to satisfy their sweet tooth. Splenda is a common choice.<br \/>\n<strong>What is Splenda?<\/strong> It&#8217;s a mixture of sucralose (or E955 &#8211; named by the European Union) and filler (maltodextose and dexose). Sucralose is a disaccharide (which literally translates to &#8220;two sugars&#8221;) that is made from sucrose by replacing three hydroxyl (OH &#8211; oxygen and hydrogen) groups with chlorine (Cl). (Precision Nutrition members can read more about the various saccharides in All About Carbohydrates.)<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how Splenda got their original slogan, &#8220;Made from sugar so it tastes like sugar.&#8221; However, after getting some flack about misleading consumers, they changed the slogan to &#8220;Starts with sugar, tastes like sugar, but is not sugar.&#8221; Not sugar&#8230; good to know &#8212; though 47% of responders to a survey (by Johnson &amp; Johnson, the parent company of Splenda) didn&#8217;t know Splenda wasn&#8217;t natural.&#8221; (source: Precision Nutritional.com)<br \/>\nFor the full read and scoop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precisionnutrition.com\/research-review-splenda-is-it-safe\">click here<\/a>.  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