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Aspartame is a critical ingredient in diet sodas like Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, and other diet drinks like Crystal Light. Aspartame is also found in sugar-free chewing gums and food products, like ...
But consumers hated the aspartame-free version so much that the company reversed course a year later. Other ingredients of concern in diet soda. While aspartame might be risky in high amounts ...
Drinking 1 liter of diet soda with 600 milligrams of aspartame will be converted into 60 milligrams of formaldehyde, according to a 2021 narrative review of literature on aspartame.
Acesulfame potassium is usually combined with aspartame, sucralose, or saccharin rather than alone and its use is particularly common among smaller beverage producers (e.g. Big Red). Diet Rite is the non-aspartame diet soft drink brand with the highest sales today; it uses a combination of sucralose and acesulfame potassium. [citation needed]
Health groups ‘advising a bit of moderation’ on aspartame consumption
According to WebMD, much like regular sugar, aspartame can trick the brain into releasing hormones like dopamine, which can then lead you to Diet Coke (and other sugary food and drink) cravings ...
The artificial sweetener aspartame has been the subject of several controversies since its initial approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1974. The FDA approval of aspartame was highly contested, beginning with suspicions of its involvement in brain cancer, [1] alleging that the quality of the initial research supporting its safety was inadequate and flawed, and that ...
These diet drinks do contain aspartame: Diet Coke. Red Bull Sugar Free. Coke Zero. Pepsi Max. Fanta Zero. Dr Pepper Zero. IRN-BRU Xtra Sugar Free. 7Up Zero Sugar. Show comments. Advertisement.