Isn't Splenda bad?

[Spawner2014]

Found this while pokin around.
Is this safe?
Super Sweet Concentrated Liquid Sucralose Sweetener - clear liquid flavor, natural flavors, flavor drops, water flavoring, flavored water

 

[supertrunker]

dosage makes the poison.

T

 

[Satellite324]

I don't know if it's safe or not, but I've always been able to pick out the taste of these sweeteners and it pretty much immediately ruins the taste for me. I also don't like drinks sweetened with this stuff.

 

[stevegmu]

I won't eat it, let alone inhale it...

 

[Frenchfry1942]

My doctor, 4 or 5 years ago, said the yellow was better than the blue or pink. There are other brands out now, but more expensive.

 

[FCastle]

Whether or not Splenda is completely safe is debatable, but it's probably the safest of the artificial sweeteners. And IMO tastes a lot better than aspartame.

 

[Maiar]

Actually as far as artificial sweeteners go, aspartame is the safest. It's the most studied food additive ever created and has been declared safe by hundreds if not thousands of studies. Unless you buy all the conspiracy junk that Obama is sterilizing Christians with it or whatever nonsense they've cooked up lol
That said I'm not sure how safe is is to inhale that or splenda.

 

[stevegmu]

That's the thing. Inhaling something vs. eating it. While not recommended to eat, I could eat extruder grade PVC pellets at work and be ok, but if I burn them in an extruder and inhale the resulting gas, I'd be on the floor dead from cyanide poisoning...

 

[Maiar]

That's the thing. Inhaling something vs. eating it. While not recommended to eat, I could eat extruder grade PVC pellets at work and be ok, but if I burn them in an extruder and inhale the resulting gas, I'd be on the floor dead from cyanide poisoning...

What he said!

 

[ABx009]

That's the thing. Inhaling something vs. eating it. While not recommended to eat, I could eat extruder grade PVC pellets at work and be ok, but if I burn them in an extruder and inhale the resulting gas, I'd be on the floor dead from cyanide poisoning...

I think that sometimes we forget about this (in a lot of different contexts). When we eat something, we have defenses to fight off bugs and toxins in our saliva, stomach acid, intestines, liver, and so on, but inhaling bypasses all of that and it basically goes directly in our blood stream; it's closer to injecting than swallowing. There's lots of things that are only safe because our defenses filter out the stuff that would hurt us before any significant amount can get into our system.

To be clear: I'm not talking about anything specific -- just that we have to keep that in mind with anything related to safety, and not take it for granted that any of this stuff is without risk. Stuff like the titanium dioxide in Unicorn Milk (and the creator's reaction) made me take a big step back.

 

[Str8vision]

Found this while pokin around.
Is this safe?
Super Sweet Concentrated Liquid Sucralose Sweetener - clear liquid flavor, natural flavors, flavor drops, water flavoring, flavored water

Sucralose is "the" sweetener companies use in e-juice, almost all commercial juice has it added as a flavor enhancer. Sucralose is stable at high temperatures and doesn't caramelize/burn on coils like Sucrose (sugar), does.

 

[AndriaD]

Found this while pokin around.
Is this safe?
Super Sweet Concentrated Liquid Sucralose Sweetener - clear liquid flavor, natural flavors, flavor drops, water flavoring, flavored water

Yes, Splenda would be bad; it contains maltodextrin, which is an actual sugar, and would gunk up coils something fierce. Sucralose on the other hand is not "bad." With these concentrated sweeteners, you need very little, just a few drops usually, to get the sweetness desired.

Andria

 

[silentstorms]

As a general rule, I stay away from all things artificially sweetened, just to be on the safe side. There is so much debate on whether or not these things are safe that I think it's the best thing to do. I don't want to drink or eat something artificially sweetened, let alone inhale it. You just never know.

 

[dodari]

Not my desire to de-rail the subject, but any pros or cons regarding stevia, I have the powdered form, use it to sweeten some of my food as I'm diabetic, haven't tried it in any e-juice yet.