On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, S.B. Feldman wrote:

> In a message dated 1/4/00 4:01:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,

> I also find splenda to be my preferred low-carbohydrate sweetener, I know how
> it is made and do not find that objectionable. There is plenty of Cl in the
> body, as a matter of fact we make hydrochloric acid which is absolutely
> necessary for digestive processes.

I have not tried the stuff, but I gather from what I have read
that the chlorine in the altered sucrose molecule is what makes
it impervious to our sucrase enzymes.  That chlorine, therefore,
is excreted and not released in the body as an unstable ion.

Todd Moody
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