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Originally Posted by ahez1991
when your body takes the sucrose from the molecule to use it as energy when it gets into your system negative chlorine ions are left floating around in your body.
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just to be clear here:
1) there does not appear to be any evidence that sucralose is dechlorinated in the body - so there are no Cl- left floating around in your body from this source
2) the body does not "take the sucrose" and "use it as energy" - that's why they can call it a non-caloric sweetener.
3) Cl- is a completely normal ion to have "floating around" in your system
As far as I can read (limited to online documents found in 30 minutes or so of searching), in humans most of the sucralose ingested is excreted in feces (not absorbed at all). Of that which is absorbed, most of that is excreted unchanged in the urine. Much of the rest is recovered from the urine as one of two metabolites - probably the results of hydrolysis of the sugar-sugar bond (couldn't find a source that actually named the 2 metabolites recovered, but found several that referenced the two products of hydrolysis, which makes sense).
Sucralose, unlike most other chlorocarbons, does not appear to be very fat-soluble and is not thought likely to be stored in fatty tissues.
So, whether it is 100% safe to eat, safe to excrete into the sewer system or not - it does not appear to be resulting in rogue Cl- ions running about in your body that are somehow different than all the normal Cl- ions you have present all of the time.