Splenda is the newest artificial sweetener on the market, and it's misleadingly marketed as "natural" because it's engineered from real sugar. In fact, the deceptive "natural" label has resulted in nine consumer class-action suits in several states and three federal commission complaints, and is also being being disputed by the American Sugar Association, which is suing Splenda's manufacturer. Splenda is a laboratory engineered altered molecule of sugar that replaces three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the sugar molecule with three chlorine atoms. Yum! Splenda is not recognized by the body as a food substance, and it passes through the gut without being digested. I'd say this is about as far from a "real" food as you can get, and there is nothing remotely natural about it.
Simple, who cares? It's a big waste of time. Rhetoric to confuse the average person and push them into something else. The sugar industry is upset because it hurts their sales. Splenda is called a "left handed" sugar because of the modification.
As for chlorine, every molecule of table salt is 50% chlorine. So there, don't listen to ridiculous babble.
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