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Health groups ‘advising a bit of moderation’ on aspartame consumption
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 ...
Aspartame is sold under the names Equal, Nutrasweet and Sugar Twin. It’s found in many diet sodas, as well as some chewing gums and sugar-free, low-calorie desserts.
Aspartame, or a mixture of the sweetener with others, is often part of refrigerated and unrefrigerated ready-to-drink beverages such as low-calorie coffee sweeteners and low-calorie juices and ...
Aspartame is about 180 to 200 times sweeter than sucrose (table sugar). Due to this property, even though aspartame produces roughly the same energy per gram when metabolized as sucrose does, 4 kcal (17 kJ), the quantity of aspartame needed to produce the same sweetness is so small that its caloric contribution is negligible. [10]
Aspartame is authorized as a food additive in Europe and the U.S. and is used in numerous foods, drinks such as Diet Coke, desserts, chewing gum, medications including cough drops and foods ...
"The Environmental Protection Agency is compiling a list of potentially dangerous chemicals. One of the chemicals they're putting on their draft list is aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in sodas and in other foods and drinks." From here. Maybe only a rumour. TickleMeister 17:09, 2 January 2011 (UTC) The story is on "Politics Daily".
Because aspartame is about 200 times sweeter than sugar, the amount of aspartame needed to sweeten one 12-ounce can of diet soda is very small — only about 192 milligrams, or 0.007 ounces. How ...