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You seem knowledgeable about sucralose ("Splenda" in US commercial branding). Thank you to share. On Wiki, it says that sucralose is "genotoxic", but provides no further information. I read the genotoxic Wiki page -- sounds terrible. What am I missing? To be clear: This is not a scare post, rather "explain it to me like I am a 5 year old"!

When I Google <<sucralose genotoxic>>, most of the results are untrustworthy, click-bait news sources.



The genotoxic edit was added by an IP editor citing an in-vitro study, I wouldn't pay much attention to it, you can find higher quality references on the article, for example this one:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869151...


Nice post. Thanks for the info. I was bothered that "genotoxic" didn't have a reference.

For other readers, I didn't know what "in-vitro study" meant. Google tells me:

    In vitro is Latin for β€œin glass.” It describes medical procedures, tests, and experiments that researchers perform outside of a living organism. An in vitro study occurs in a controlled environment, such as a test tube or petri dish.




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