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Is Sucralose safe??

jimmyboy - 1-9-2005 at 12:32

I've been looking around in patents on how its made exactly - but have been wondering what chems are needed to make it release its chlorine - if it requires sulfuric or other things that arent present in the human body then maybe i will accept it - anyone ever played with this - looked at anything interesting? just trying to determine just how stable the sucralose molecule really is :)

[Edited on 1-9-2005 by jimmyboy]

[Edited on 2-9-2005 by jimmyboy]

Swany - 3-9-2005 at 18:45

Apparently stable enough to go though your body un-metabolised. If it did something bad I'm belive the FDA would've noticed by now.

I use it in pyrotechnics as a chlorine donor, it works for that. Heat decomposition seems to be the main thing that would break it down. Then again your body isn't that hot. :P

unionised - 4-9-2005 at 01:13

To answer your question, the most likely thing that will take the chlorine off it is water. IIRC if this happened to all 3 chlorines you would be left with sucrose so I don't see the problem.
Both the FDA and their EU equivalent have decided that its fairly safe.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/out68_en.pdf