http://acsh.org/news/2016/06/16/chemists-were-wrong-about-splenda/

Medicinal chemists — organic chemists who study drugs — frequently develop an ability that is sometimes informally called “eyeball toxicology,” or the ability to determine a rough idea of the toxicity of a substance just by seeing its chemical structure on paper. It is a form of intuition. The longer you do the job, the better you get at it.

It would be reasonable to call this skill a “highly educated guess,” which is acquired through years of studying the relationship between the structures of a variety of chemicals and their toxicity. It’s not perfect, but we often get it right. It could just as easily called acquired toxicological judgement. Or, “that is one nasty looking molecule!”

But, it failed miserably with the artificial sweetener Splenda (sucralose). To many medicinal chemists, sucralose looked like bad news, but turned out to be just the opposite. More on that later.
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I don’t believe it! ;-)

For the first time in recorded history a sweetener is not linked to a grisly death.

mollwollfumble said:

I don’t believe it! ;-)

For the first time in recorded history a sweetener is not linked to a grisly death.

>>Sugar alcohol based explosive chemicals are nitrated chemicals derived from straight-chain sugar alcohol molecules, such as (nominally) methane, ethylene glycol, glycerol aka glycerine, erythritol, xylitol, and mannitol.

The completely nitrated versions of these compounds form powerful and sensitive explosives.<<

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sugar_alcohol_explosives

exaggeration

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I don’t believe it! ;-)

For the first time in recorded history a sweetener is not linked to a grisly death.

Tell that to my friend who was crushed underneath a crate of Splenda only his head was undamaged and that was decapitated.

Cymek said:

quote=mollwollfumble]
I don’t believe it! ;-)

For the first time in recorded history a sweetener is not linked to a grisly death.

Tell that to my friend who was crushed underneath a crate of Splenda only his head was undamaged and that was decapitated.

Honey resulted in this grizley death