Sucralose

What this is

Sucralose is a zero-calorie sweetener used to make “diet” or “zero sugar” items taste sweet without adding sugar. In fast-food settings, it most often shows up in fountain diet sodas, “zero” branded drinks, flavored teas, and some sugar-free syrups or dessert-style drinks. FDA allows sucralose, and past intake modeling found even high consumers were generally below the U.S. acceptable daily intake level. Research on long-term health effects is still debated: short-term studies often show little immediate effect on blood sugar, while longer-term weight or gut effects are less clear.

Critical Endpoints

The key endpoints experts review in safety assessments (critical endpoints). This is not a prediction of harm.