The most controversial food additive ever.

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https://usrtk.org/sweeteners/aspartame_health_risks/

They've been talking about aspartame being unsafe for years. They even got me at one point to believe their crap.

Aspartame literally is THE most tested food additive the FDA has ever tested. Over and over again people (like the idiots in the article above) claim aspartame is the most dangerous substance in the world, claim all kinds of "studies" have proven to its lethality and its just not the case. Aspartame has been proven as a safe sugar substitute over 30 times over.

I mean they gave rats one time a 2,000x the healthy recommended dose of fluoride one time and use that "study" to attack fluoride so people will stop using toothpaste. If you overdose a rat (or a human) with water it would kill the rats too. Does that mean we should stop drinking water because it's "dangerous."? Of course not! I don't call an unfair test of a substance a concrete proven test and it's just a plain fact, aspartame is a safe sugar substitute. The FDA has proven it over 30 times over. Nothing in the world has been tested by the FDA as many times as aspartame. Maybe once you start giving mice NORMAL dosages over the period of a month and in that month they grew 4 extra legs, I might be willing to listen to you. Otherwise it's no crap they had adverse effects you overdosed them!
 

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I think the reason aspartame tastes bad is because it's made of acids.

Depends what the sweeteners are being put In. I don't mind the taste of diet coke but I have to drink Splenda flavored diet soda. I've never thought aspartame tastes bad per se but I do notice in large doses it makes me sick. The FDA tested normal amounts though. Anything in large amounts making you sick is like a huge duh. Like I said that's like making us drink too much water.
 
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I prefer to avoid food/drink additives that have been created in a lab. There are plenty of natural options, like fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains. They do make unsweetened, flavored sparkling water, which is all the benefits of soda pop with zero calories and zero Frankenstein's lab ingredients.
 
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It is very hard to get an honest answer from the chemical industry and the FDA I presume is more interested in one on one effects rather than how it may influence diseases such as the turmoil over the relationship between type 2 diabetes and diet drinks. Personally I find them to be addictive (cravings weeks or months later) and fatiguing.
 
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so are happy fizzy parties.
There was a product a little over 60 years ago called Fizzies that started the whole imitation sugar bandwagon going. I think it was cyclamates they were using that got banned and we lost a terrific little effervescent drink tablet. Ever since then the diet drink movement has struggled.

The thing is that back then products weren't saturated with corn syrup by-products to the extent they are today where even a regular sugar soft drink has a greatly muted fizz due to all the syrup. Back in the day it went in your mouth and out your nose no problem. Get rid of the extra and unnecessary fructose additives and the need for diet drinks will diminish. What is next? Diet sugar in milk to replace the fructose they are putting in there now?
 
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There was a product a little over 60 years ago called Fizzies that started the whole imitation sugar bandwagon going. I think it was cyclamates they were using that got banned and we lost a terrific little effervescent drink tablet. Ever since then the diet drink movement has struggled.

The thing is that back then products weren't saturated with corn syrup by-products to the extent they are today where even a regular sugar soft drink has a greatly muted fizz due to all the syrup. Back in the day it went in your mouth and out your nose no problem. Get rid of the extra and unnecessary fructose additives and the need for diet drinks will diminish. What is next? Diet sugar in milk to replace the fructose they are putting in there now?
I still remember the commercial of the kid going into a cafe and asking for 5 waters, she had brought her own tablets for the party. Corn wasn’t irradiated into a non-usable product then either. I find a soda stream does the job well and homemade shrubs made with acv and sugar turned probiotic for the flavour. But it’s still the acidic effect.
 
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