![]() That means that experts consider the substance in question safe based on available research. Food and Drug Administration says sucralose is “generally recognized as safe,” or GRAS. Here’s where things get a little confusing. ![]() But having your cake, and well, eating it for fewer calories, might make you wonder if the sugar-free label is too good to be true. Too much of the sweet stuff has been linked to obesity, type 2 diabetes, tooth decay, and metabolic syndrome, so food manufacturers looked for a way to add sweetness to their products without extra calories. Splenda stormed onto the food scene and found their way onto the ingredients lists of diet sodas and lower-calorie desserts, was to curb sugar intake. The likely reason zero-calorie sweeteners like sucralosa a.k.a. Pfau adds: “It has no benefits to it, as far as affecting your body in a positive way.” But sucralose, which is 600 times sweeter than real sugar, doesn’t provide calories or nutrients. ![]() Regular sugar, whether that’s cane, honey, maple syrup, even high-fructose corn syrup, is absorbed and digested by the body, Pfau explains. It doesn’t function in the body like sugar.” “The sugar molecule is natural-you can find it in foods across the Earth-but once you bring it to a laboratory and start tampering with it, it’s no longer sugar. “It’s clever marketing, but it does mislead consumers because it’s passed off as a natural thing, and it’s not,” Pfau explains.
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