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Sucralose found in common sweetener damages DNA, may cause cancer [1]

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/sucralose-found-in...

Reality: At the very highest concentrations of the sucralose compound tested in this study, using cells in petri dishes, one marker of gene damage was slightly elevated

In reality, I try to minimize my exposure to known carcinogens.

This one is quite avoidable.

If your epistemic standard is based on what happens to a single marker of cells in a petri dish at concentrated levels of exposure, then the list of foods you should avoid is endless. You couldn't even eat meat nor all sorts of vegetables even though those foods improve human health outcomes in clinical trials.

For example, that experiment can't even capture the most basic hormetic effect.

I've recently been wondering if sucralose isn't the agent driving a recent increase in cancer cases among young people.

Putting lots of chlorine atoms in your sugar is not a good idea.

We got my mom to stop using it when she developed some bad rashes on her hands. Turns out, sucralose was the cause.

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