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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by Applejinx on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:24PM (#16363704)
I'd like that. 'Sucralose' is a brand intended to seem like a substance. It's neither a sugar nor an ose: it's C12H19Cl3O8 also known as (1→6)-Dichloro-(1→6)-dideoxy-β-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-α-D-galactopyranoside. If you burn it at over 662 degrees you get polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin smoke, which makes sense considering that you make 'sucralose' by a chlorinating process.

I have some nasty reactions to the stuff and so did my late mother, who was a total skeptic to all crunchy-granola pure-foodery. I hate that they can brand a strange chemical like this with the names of natural sweeteners and then we're expected to call it by that name. Though I admit DichlorodideoxyβDfructofuranosyl4chloro4deoxyαDgalactopyranoside is much harder to say, and contains letters that aren't even letters at all.

Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by prepend on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:38PM (#16363780)
Splenda is a brand. Sucralose is a substance. No TM, no brand any more than bananas is.
Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by refurb on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:35PM (#16364792)
To add on top of that sucralose is a sugar, just one where 5 oxygen atoms are replaced by chlorine.