Since everyone has a sweet-tooth to some extent, knowing what each sweetener actually is, its effectiveness, side effects, and which are known toxins is important to know. This is a first in a series on artificial sweeteners and ‘natural’ sweeteners commonly used. We’ll cover why some are considered toxic,what problems with some of the others are, and which are considered safe and possibly useful.

 The list we’ll cover list in the order of usability.

 Best
Don’t use any sweetener at all. 
While on keto your desire for sweet food will diminish and the fewer you have the faster you will reach that point. Some sweeteners are know to spike your insulin...without increasing your glucose...so thinking it through on why you want to use a particular sweetener a head of time my change your desire of needing a sweetener at all.

 If you have to 
Stevia 
Xylitol (be careful around your pets, especially dogs)

 Haven’t tried but have read good things about this.

Allulose
Safe but questions
Monk fruit

Got issues with…Sugar alcohols
Erythritol
Maltitol
Sorbitol

 Over my dead body
Aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet, Natra Taste Blue)
Neotame
advantame
Sucralose (Splenda)
Saccharine (Sweet’N Low, Sweet Twin)
Acesulfame K (ACE K, Sunette, Equal Spoonful, Sweet One, Sweet’n Safe)

 Links:
Aspartame
HISTORY OF ASPARTAME

http://www.wnho.net/history_of_aspartame.htm

http://www.whale.to/b/as.html

Aspartame (Nutrasweet) Toxicity Info Center:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robbie-gennet/donald-rumsfeld-and-the-s_b_805581.html

Donald Rumsfeld and the Strange History of Aspartame

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robbie-gennet/donald-rumsfeld-and-the-s_b_805581.html

Here's the timeline of how things went down:

 http://www.rense.com/general33/legal.htm

On Rumsfeld and Aspartame:

 http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive15.htm

Dr. John Olney's letter to the Senate in 1987:

 http://www.scribd.com/doc/6669992/Dr-John-Olney-Statement-Aspartame-l987

Sucralose

Effect of Sucralose (Splenda) on the Microbiome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=nuMt7wFarrw

A histological assessment of effects of sucralose on liver of albino rats.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30078469

The Artificial Sweetener Splenda Promotes Gut Proteobacteria, Dysbiosis, and Myeloperoxidase Reactivity in Crohn's Disease-Like Ileitis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29554272

Intestinal Metabolism and Bioaccumulation of Sucralose In Adipose Tissue In The Rat.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30130461

Sucralose administered in feed, beginning prenatally through lifespan, induces hematopoietic neoplasias in male swiss mice

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10773525.2015.1106075?journalCode=yjoh20

Effects of Sucralose Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuMt7wFarrw&authuser=1