02/07/2020
ARTIFICIAL (not found in nature; man made chemical compound) SWEETENERS
From the Book Sweet Deception by Dr. Joseph Mercola
Current List of Artificial Sweeteners:
1. Saccharin
2. Cyclamate
3. Aspartame
4. Alitame
5. Sucralose
6. Acesulfame-K
7. Neotame
Saccharin: Discovered: 1879: Scientists at Johns Hopkins University researching toluene Derivatives. Toluene is
a clear, colorless liquid produced in the process of making gasoline and crude oil and in making Coke (as a carbon
residue) from coal. It is used in creating paints, paint thinners, fingernail polish, lacquers, adhesives, and rubber.
High level exposure can cause unconsciousness or even death. One researcher accidentally spilled and then ingested
some of a particular chemical made from Toluene. He noted that it was oddly sweet. He traced the taste back to the
chemical and named the substance saccharin, after the word saccharide, which means complex sugar. In 1884 it was
patented Saccharin and was mass produced.
300 Times sweeter than sugar.
1/8th of a calorie per teaspoon compared to sugar.
1912 Banned due to health concerns.
Cyclamate: Discovered: 1937 : University of Illinois Graduate Student Michael Sveda. Sveda was trying to
synthesize fever reducing drugs in the lab and laid a cigarette on the bench. When he placed it in his mough again,
he discovered the sweet taste of cyclamate from the chemicals he had on his fingers.
Less after taste. Inexpensive to produce and zero calories.
Became Sweet’n Low in the little pink packets initially.
Banned in 1968 by FDA due to bladder cancer in mice.
Sweet’n Low is now a mixture of Saccharin and Dextrose.
ASPERTAME: Discovered: 1965: GD Searle & Company researching Amino Acids to find a drug to treat peptic
ulcer disease. When he licked his fingers to pick up a piece of paper, James Schlatter got the worlds first taste of
Aspartame. It never reached the pharmaceutical industry as a drug. Instead it revolutionized the artificial
sweetener industry. 1967 found to cause neurotoxicity and damage to brains of mice. Other symptoms reported
include aggressive behavior, disorientation, hyperactivity, extreme numbness, excitability, memory loss, loss of depth
perception, liver impairment, cardiac arrest, seizures, suicidal tendencies, severe mood swings and death.
Breaks down in the body to DKP, Formaldehyde and Methanol which are all poisons and carcinogenic.
Nutrisweet:
Acesulfame Potassium (K) was approved for use by the FDA as a safe artificial sweetener in July, l988. It is
a derivative of acetoacetic acid. Unfortunately, several potential problems associated with the use of acesulfame
have been raised. They are based largely on animal studies since testing on humans remains limited. The findings
showed the following:
Acesulfame K stimulates insulin secretion in a dose dependent fashion thereby possibly aggravating reactive
hypoglycemia ("low blood sugar attacks").
Acesulfame K apparently produced lung tumors, breast tumors, rare types of tumors of other organs (such as the
thymus gland), several forms of leukemia and chronic respiratory disease in several rodent studies, even when less
than maximum doses were given. According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, it was petitioned on
August 29, l988 for a stay of approval by the FDA because of "significant doubt" about its safety.
Dr. H.J. Roberts, Aspartame (NutraSweet) Is It Safe?, Charles Press, page 283/84.
SUCRALOSE: SPLENDA: 1975: Queen Elizabeth College in London Shashikant Phadnis a graduate
student was trying to create a new insecticide. The experiment involved taking sulfuryl Chloride – a highly poisonous
chemical – and adding it drop by drip to a sugar solution. This volatile reaction gave birth to 1’,4,6,6’-tetrachloro-
1’,4,6,6’-tetradewxygalactosucrose. These powders had molecules full of chlorine atoms. DDT, a proven toxin also
has many chlorine atoms. He was told to test the powder but he thought they told him to taste the powder. He told
his colleagues it was sweet. He then added it to his coffee and the rest is history. Experiments with other chlorinated
sugars finally revealed the final product of 1’6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-beta-D-Frusctfuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-
D-Galactopyranoside or more commonly called SPLENDA.
Some say it is made from sugar. Well...it is...sort of? They treat the sugar eith trityl Chloride, Acetic anhydride,
hydrogen chlorine, thionyl chloride and methanol in the presence of dimethylformamide, 4-methylmoorpholine,
toluene, methyl isobutyl ketone, acetic acid, benzyltriethlyammonium chloride and sodium methoxide. Then and
only then is it Splenda. This “1’6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-beta-D-Frusctfuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-D-
Galactopyranoside” is anything but a sugar molecule. It is in the same classification of chemical as organochlorines.
Here are a list of just a few:
NAME Purpose Safety
DDT Insecticide Banned North America
Dicofol Insecticide Banned in most countries
Methoxychlor Insecticide Neurotoxin
Chlorobenzilate Insecticide Banned in US
Aldrin Pesticide Banned in US
Chlordane Insecticide Banned in US
Grans-nonachlor Insecticide Banned in US
Heptachlor Epoxide Insecticide Liver damage, carcinogen
PCBs Electric Insulator Banned in most countries
P*P and TCP Insecticide Wood Preservative 60% death rate on skin pe*******on
HCB Fungicide, Pesticide, tire manufact. Banned in US, Harms Endocrine system
Dioxins (210 kinds) pesticides, wood preservative cancer, diabetes, liver heart and skin dz.
PVC plastics, building materials, toys cancer, birth defects,
Phosgene Chemical Warfare Lethal Respiratory poison
Mustard Gas Chemical Warfare Lethal Respiratory Poison
Chloroform Anesthetic, Solvent Banned as an anesthetic.
Dichloromethane Solvents Carcinogenic
Dichloroethene Solvents Liver, Kidney and Lung disease
Trichloroethane Solvents Banned in US
Sucralose / Splenda Food Sweetener The only Organochlorine ever used for human consumption.
