Sucralose is a non-caloric sweetener about 600 times sweeter than sucrose. It is manufactured by chlorinating sugar, which substitutes three chlorine atoms for three hydroxyl groups to produce 1,6-dichloro-1,6-dioxy-β-D-fructo-furanosyl 4-chloro-4-deoxy-α-D-galactopyranoside. It is stable under heating so that, unlike aspartame, it can be used in baking.
Sucralose mixed with maltodextrin as a bulking agent is sold internationally by McNeil-PPC under the brand nameSplenda, and until 2007, manufactured only in McIntosh, Alabama. It is used in products such as candy, breakfast bars and soft drinks. It was discovered in 1976 by scientists from Tate & Lyle Ltd., working with researchers at Queen Elizabeth College (which since 1985 has been part of King's College London).
In the United States and Canada, yellow packets of sucralose are increasingly found in restaurants.
Like many artificial sweeteners, pure sucralose is rather difficult for the average consumer to purchase.
External links
The Splenda home page (http://www.splenda.com/)
FDA press announcement (http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/tpsucral.html)
Ł97m Investment to Significantly Boost Splenda® Sucralose Output (http://193.35.126.50/PressReleases/PressRelease1287.asp), describing new manufacturing plant in Singapore
Splenda has it’s own artificial taste which is due to this chlorinated compound.
Remember, Splenda is not a natural substance, it is an artificial chemical sweetener manufactured by adding three chlorine atoms to a sugar molecule.
Fact: In an effort to convince consumers that “Splenda is made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar” and to encourage them to “Think sugar, say Splenda”, the giant drug manufacturer Johnson and Johnson is running a multi-million dollar advertising campaign encouraging the misperception that their artificial sweetener is equivalent to all-natural sugar.
The preferred consort of Zeus, Splenda was also bestowed the ability to turn any mortal who dared to lust after her into a powdery white substance that was sweet like sugar, but not found to cause cancer in Spartans who were under philosophical observation.
Splenda was rumored to have burst forth from the loins of Transvesta, the half-man in a toga / half-man in a dress, that is best remembered in lyric song as the God who lavished his praise all over the all-male chorus’ that were a staple of Greek theatre.
Splenda’s chief rival for the affections of Zeus was Diana; the competition between the two could only be described as fierce.
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