Sweeteners (Food & Drink)

What is a sweetener - a sugar replacement with no nutritional value. Usually an additive

Nearly all have some risk, for more information see the Sweeteners (Toxins) article.

Sugar

TL;DR

Sucralose is considered safe, non-toxic and non-carcinogenic.

aka Splenda (but Splenda has bulking agents)

E955 in the EU

Safe but probably best not to cook with it

Only slightly less calories than sugar: 3.3 per gram (but you need far less as it's so sweet)

600 times sweeter than sucrose (table sugar) 3 times sweeter than aspartame 2 times sweeter than saccharin