About 600 people were chosen for a poll about use of Splenda in their tea and coffee. 70% of those confirmed to using it while the remaining did not. Splenda is an artificial sweetener that is suppose to be 600 times sweeter than sugar and its one of the new products on the racks in the stores. Splenda is generally called sucralose.
Splenda can be used as a direct substitute for sugar as well as added while preparing sweets at home or desserts in the form of sugar syrup or otherwise. The frequently debated issue regarding use of Splenda is, does Splenda cause cancer?
Splenda is one of the most extensively tested food ingredients ever introduced in the market.
Leading medical, scientific and regulatory authorities around the world including Food and Drug Association in the US have approved Splenda as safe for human consumption.
Study on 110 humans and animals were done before pronouncing it safe for human consumption. Use of Splenda has been studied and observed closely connecting it with neurological, carcinogenic and reproductive and effects but none have been found.
The debate whether use of Splenda causes cancer or not began when saccharine was once found linked to bladder development in lab rat in the 1970s during a saccharine trial and ever since the story is doing rounds and the researchers have failed to get rid of the stigma.
The debate whether Splenda is safe for children or not also corps up time and again. But no study has confirmed that it is bad for pregnant women and children than any natural sweetener can be.
It is safe for diabetic patients. It’s safe for people who are trying to lose weight. While processing Splenda all the extra calories that sugar generally contains is taken care of.
