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Re:Chemists Were Wrong About Splenda by doomtop on Friday June 17, 2016 @03:29PM (#11925005)
This. The term "natural" when it comes to food doesn't even necessarily mean it's not synthetic! Just that it is "derived" from something natural. [1]

[1] http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrs...

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Re:Chemists Were Wrong About Splenda by technojunkie on Friday June 17, 2016 @03:35PM (#11925049)
To stay on topic, I'm calling Stevia natural as a comparison to sugar coming from sugar cane, which grows in nature and not in a lab. No marketing speak here.
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