Mon, Feb-14-05, 13:50
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This site is a joke.
On the facts vs. fiction area, they first tell us that the manufacturer's claim that Splenda is "made from sugar" is false, but if you read the following paragraphs, they never deny that Splenda is made from sugar!
They claim it can made from the "molecule" raffinose, which is, by the way, a trisaccharide sugar, so therefore the manufacturer is lying because it isn't made from sucrose (what most people think of as "sugar"). Clearly the person who made the site avoided calling raffinose a sugar because this would imply that Sucralose is indeed capable of being made from sugar. Raffinose, by the way, certainly does have a taste. This is the sugar found in molasses.
It is true that chemically Sucralose is closest to galactose, not sucrose or glucose, but this does not disqualify it from being a sugar, despite its artificial nature. The trade name was clearly created because "1,6-Dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-beta-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-D-galactopyranoside" would be too much of a mouthful.
The site is full of misleading half-truths like saying that the chlorine in Splenda is the same as the chlorine in pools and in pesticides (which is also the same as the chlorine in salt, the human body, foods, etc).
Sucralose is a sugar:
http://sci-toys.com/ingredients/sucralose.html
Last edited by Angrenost : Mon, Feb-14-05 at 19:50.
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