It shouldn't be our job to be ingredient label readers. But unfortunately, we have to today. The artificial sweetener that used to boldly brag on the label: Made with Nutrasweet has had to change it's name to avoid consumer detection. Splenda (sucralose) has been using this method for a while. While shopping, I was looking at hot chocolate ingredients. Typically, you can tell is something is artificially sweetened because it boldly professes on the label that it's low sugar or no sugar or low calorie. Nestle's had it's low sugar brand of hot chocolate and regular. I assumed the regular to be sweetened with sugar, which it was. However, what I didn't suspect was that they went and ALSO added Splenda to the mix. HEADS UP: They now try to sneak the artificial sweetener in the list. Splenda is the proprietary name but the ingredient's name is sucralose, which sounds an awful lot like sucrose. Course they prefer that name to actually listing the chemical structure: 1,6-Dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-β-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-α-D-galactopyranoside (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose). The advertisers say sucralose is natural. It comes from sugar. That's the equivalent of saying that since plastic jugs come from petroleum and petroleum at one time (a long long time ago) came from plants, then plastic is made from plants and therefore is natural and biodegradable. Sucralose or Splenda is 22 organic chemistry steps away from sugar. It has 3 chlorine molecules attached to it. It's appearance (chemically speaking) is a lot closer to a pesticide like DDT than a food. Supposedly it can't be absorbed. However, most studies have a 25% loss from ingesting it to eliminating it causing us to wonder... where did it go? If it's unabsorbable like they say, then ??? Nutrasweet (aspartame) has it's own slew of issues. It's considered a neurotoxin and has the notorious distinction of being the number one complained about additive in the history of the FDA. The following is a good accumulation of articles that differ from the FDA's opinion that aspartame or NutraSweet or AminoSweet is safe. http://www.321recipes.com/aspartame.html. Do some research. Food should not be made in a chemistry lab. We should be eating food as close to it's original form as possible. The less processing, the better. http://amplify.com/u/26lm
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