Chemical Found In Artificial Sweetener Splenda Damages DNA

Chemical Found In Artificial Sweetener Splenda Reportedly Damages DNA

America’s favorite artificial sweetener could have some bitter health effects, including damage to your DNA.

Splenda is the brand name for sucralose, often added to diet sodas, baked goods, chewing gum, gelatins and frozen desserts.

It’s even found in drug products like Tylenol, Pepcid and cold and flu medicines.

 

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Splenda is 600 times sweeter than sugar and is the best-selling artificial sweetener in America, with sales roughly double those of its nearest rival, Sweet’n Low.

But sucralose has been found to be genotoxic, meaning it breaks apart the DNA in chromosomes and can lead to cancer, according to new research published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.

“All dna based anything with protein or radioactive ability can change dna. There has to be a ph scale for this. Acid,” someone commented.

“Just give me the real thing then!” another person wrote. “This has been known for like decades and we just keep forgetting about it everytime a new article comes out about it,” another person added.