From: The Sucralose Paradox: From Insecticide Accident to Sweetener

Can you gradually retrain your palate to enjoy lower levels of sweetness?

Constantly consuming highly concentrated sweeteners keeps your taste buds desensitized to natural flavors. By reducing both sugar and artificial substitutes, your tongue becomes far more sensitive to the subtle sweetness in whole foods.

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Try a 'sweetness fast' for one week by eliminating all artificial sweeteners and added sugars, then notice how sweet a simple apple tastes.

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Ingesting sucralose alters the balance of beneficial bacteria in the gut.

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Sucralose was accidentally discovered in 1976 during research on new insecticides.

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A chemical byproduct and metabolite of sucralose can damage human DNA.

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The Sucralose Paradox: From Insecticide Accident to Sweetener

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