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Splenda products can claim health benefits

by Nicole Weston, Posted Apr 1st 2006 @ 9:25AM

Aside from the claim of "Zero calories!", which may or may not be considered a benefit, Splenda can not be considered to be "health food." The popular artificial sweetener is just that: artificial. This week, however, the FDA decided that some foods that use Splenda can claim limited health benefits because of the fact that they contain the sweetener. Following a request from the McNeil Nutritionals, which manufactures Splenda , the FDA is allowing products made with Splenda to state that they do not promote tooth decay. The claim cannot be made for the sweetener alone. Companies that wish to make use of the health claim must use the following wording: Frequent eating of foods high in sugars and starches as between-meal snacks can promote tooth decay. Sucralose, the sweetening ingredient used to sweeten this food, unlike sugars, does not promote tooth decay.

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Filed Under: Business, Light Food
Tags: america, artificial, artificial sweetener, fda, health, health benefirts, light food, splenda, sucralose, sugar, tooth decay

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4-01-2006 @4:03PM peggy said... Give me a touch of natural raw cane sugar, birch sugar (aka Xylitol which research shows prevents tooth decay), a bit of raw unfiltered honey, brown rice syrup, fruit puree, date sugar or agave syrup ANY DAY over artificial, highly processed, sweeteners such as sucralose. In my opinion, it's probably best to avoid sweeteners alltogether, but for those occasional treats, I prefer to indulge in the natural stuff. I avoid the processed stuff like the plague.
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