“Sweetness is the most important ingredient for life,” reads a Splenda packet.

However, the debate continues on whether artificial sweeteners or natural sugar is best to ingest.

Sugar, or sucrose, is a natural product separated from beet or cane plants. This product is 99.95% pure sucrose, says the Sugar Association.

So I grabbed a soda the other day and noticed it was loaded with Aspartame -- yummy. I know that products made with Sucralose cause my stomach to cramp intensely so generally skip the artificial sweeteners, but these kinds of things always get me thinkng about what I'm putting into my body. Turns out Harvard Medical School was thinking about it and went one step further by compiling a report on the safety of artificial sweeteners and whether we should use them. Is the trade off in calories worth possible health issues? Find out by clicking on the link below.