Splenda is poison. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/111041

While Splenda could be considered a pesticide, it does have 20-calories, 0-grams fat, 0-grams saturated fat...per serving.

Everything has caloies in it, just some have a very small amount - such as Splenda.

Use sugar. It is 100% natural and the best for sweetening things. One tsp has about 15 calories and it takes less to sweeten things with than other sweeteners. This was brought to you be someone who lives in a sugar producing state.:)

If you eat Splenda, check this out first! http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/ Here is an exert from that article: Pre-Approval Research Pre-approval research showed that sucralose caused shrunken thymus glands (up to 40% shrinkage) and enlarged liver and kidneys. The manufacturer put forth two arguments in an attempt to claim that sucralose is not toxic: The dose of sucralose in the experiments was high. However, for chemicals that do not have generations of safe use, the dosage tested must be adjusted for variations in potential toxicity within the human population and between humans and rodents. In order to this, toxicologists estimate a variation of effects in the human population of 10 times. In other words, one person may not have effects until a dose of 10 mg per kg of body weight (10 mg/kg) is reached, while another person may have chronic toxicity effects at 1 mg per kg of body weight (1 mg/kg). In addition, it is well known that many chemicals are much more toxic in humans than in rodents (or even monkeys). For example, the chemicals that the sweetener aspartame breaks down into vary from 5 to 50 times more toxic in humans than in rodents. Therefore, toxicologists estimate a further 10 times the dose for differences between human and rodent toxicity for a total of 100 times (10 * 10). In order to estimate a potential safe dose in humans, one must divide the lowest dose in given to rodents that was seen to have any negative effects on their thymus glands, liver or kidneys by 100. That dose is then known as the maximum Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) for lifetime use. Keep in mind that the TDI is just an estimate. Some chemicals are much more than 10 times more toxic in humans than in rodents (or will cause cancer in humans in low-dose, long-term exposure and do not cause cancer in rodents at all). A person ingesting the TDI for some chemical may find that it causes cancer or immune system or neurological problems after many years or decades of use. So, if the manufacturer claims that the dose was equivalent to 50 diet sodas, then the TDI would be one half (1/2) of a diet soda, and even that dose may or may not be safe. The manufacturer claimed that the sucralose was unpleasant for the rodents to eat in large doses. They said that starvation caused the shruken thymus glands. From the New Scientist (23 Nov 1991, pg 13): [Toxicologist Judith] Bellin reviewed studies on rats starved under experimental conditions, and concluded that their growth rate could be reduced by as much as a third without the thymus losing a significant amount of weight (less than 7 percent). The changes were much more marked in rats fed on sucralose. While the animals' growth rate was reduced by between 7 and 20 percent, their thymuses shrank by as much as 40 percent. Other adverse effects reported in pre-approval research included: Shrunken thymus glands (up to 40% shrinkage) (EO56) Enlarged liver and kidneys. (EO57 & E161) Atrophy of lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus (EO51, EO56, EO151) Increased cecal weight (E151) Reduced growth rate (EO57) Decreased red blood cell count (EO55) Hyperplasia of the pelvis (EO57) Extension of the pregnancy period Aborted pregnancy (E134) Decreased fetal body weights and placental weights (EO32) Diarrhea I have heard that Splenda was accidentally discovered when two chemists were trying to make rat poison.

While splenda has no fat or saturated fat, it does have 20 calories. However, i highly recommend using simple brown sugar because the construction of Splenda, while having a sugar base, is chemically altered and contains the same chlorine you put in a pool. Health wise, you're much better off sweetening your food and drink with brown sugar.

SH** I think I'll sprinkle some splenda outside and see if it kills anything out there. LOL

In it's granulated form, it is calorie free and fat free. I'm not sure about the packets because I don't use those. Don't listen to these nay-sayers. There is absolutely NO evidence that NORMAL amounts of sucralose cause any kind of harm or illness. In those "laboratory tests" the researchers fed rodents an extremely high dose of sucralose (the equivalent of 15,000 individual packets per day). As long as you aren't consuming 15,000 packets per day, I think you'll be just fine. Aside from that, we KNOW the ill effects of "real" sugars. Diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, syndrome X, insulin resistance, etc. SUGAR is poison for your body. Your body was never meant to digest sugar in any form, and it's clear from the current obesity epidemic and the fact that you can't escape sugar in any of the food you eat (even canned corn has sugar added to it!!!) that it's SUGAR that's destroying our health. Go ahead and have your glass of tea, sweetened with sucralose, and don't worry!

Yes and it tastes like crap.

Splenda is not exactly calorie free. Taken directly from the SPLENDA website: http://tinyurl.com/gt8xl "SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener still has an insignificant calorie value per serving and meets FDA's standards for "no calorie" sweeteners" Later in the website (under the brown sugar FAQ) they state that each "teaspoon of SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener, Granular has less than 0.5 g carbohydrate and 2 calories" However, that's only if we're talking about the "no calorie sweetener" they sell. If you use the "quick packs" which are the ones they sell that they say equal the sweetness of 1 cup of sugar, there are 13 calories in each pouch. Also, each "tablespoon of SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend contains 48 calories " http://tinyurl.com/27e6y8

Yes it is and delicious too!

what is Splenda??

The only people who dislike Splenda are those who have never had to worry about their weight, diabetes or other health problems or who have never simply tried it and judged it before trying it. Splenda is wonderful and a great substitute and it's a household name in our house now. It's actually sweeter than sugar and it works great in baking as well. I've used it dozens of times and no one ever can tell the difference. My children even eat it now instead and I feel better knowing they aren't being pumped up with sugar, especially since with the family history they have a good chance of getting diabetes later in life.