Reply #25: I just read that sucralose (Splenda) began in a pesticide lab

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"In 1975, at the Queen Elizabeth College
in London, Shashikant Phadnis, a
graduate student working with his advisor,
Leslie Hough was attempting to synthesize
novel insecticides based upon chlorinated
sugar molecules. Although the toxicity of
the chemicals with which they were dealing
was certainly well known to both of
them, puzzlingly, when asked by Hough to
test the compound, Phadnis misunderstood
and responded by tasting the compound
instead.

As one could probably guess, the compound
just so happened to be extremely
sweet. Phadnis and Hough worked together
with British sugar manufacturer
Tate & Lyle to create over a hundred chlorinated
sugars, eventually settling on the
compound we know today as sucralose as
the best-suited candidate for inclusion in
our food supply. (Note: many people have
noted that the very name given to this
sweetener, sucralose, is deceptively similar
to sucrose, or common table sugar implying
more of a relationship between these
two compounds than actually exists.).."

http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/

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