Sucralose

Splenda commercials are so vibrant that you’d almost never know that sucralose is chlorinated sugar—a chlorocarbon. If you skipped chemistry class, just remember that chlorine is the disinfectant dumped into pools to kill everything. In fact, farmers discovered sucralose while developing insecticides that were never meant to be consumed.

Our metabolic systems aren’t equipped to process chlorocarbons, but sucralose is 600 times sweeter than sugar and often contributes to more intense cravings for sweets.