Does Splenda Contain Chlorine and is it Unhealthy? (August 2008)

It is true that Splenda is made using Chlorine, which sounds scary, but the sugar industry warns that you are actually “eating chlorine” when consuming sucralose, the chemical sold as Splenda. Plain sugar is transformed into sucralose by substituting three chlorine atoms for hydrogen, creating a substance that is not digested by the body, so it’s effectively calorie free and that’s 600 times sweeter than sugar. There is no evidence that the chlorine atoms in sucralose are any more dangerous than they are in, say sodium chloride (ordinary salt). Before giving sucralose the OK, the US Food and Drug Administration reviewed more than 110 human and animal studies demonstrating its safety.