Coke Insists Fake Sweetener, Aspartame, Is Safe
Aspartame is the third ingredient in Diet Coke and the fourth ingredient in Coke Zero Sugar, which means Diet Coke probably has a little more aspartame than Coke Zero Sugar. Coke Zero Sugar contains two artificial sweeteners: aspartame and acesulfame potassium. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener ...
Hm. After a bit of research, the easiest explanation is that aspartame isn't "made of" anything, but is a compound unto itself. It has it's own chemical formula, and was synthesized in a lab. To put it another way, if table salt is made of sodium and chlorine (NaCl), then aspart...
I love the arguments against aspartame! I had a seizure and it was because I had a diet Coke, then I remembered the other seizure. Aspartame is an ant poison? The internet dispels that stupid myth. "I've been researching this for two weeks..." Are you a researcher? Or do you mean...
Little sucralose metabolizes in the digestive tract. It leaves the body in the urine. Absorption is nil. Calorie intake is essentially zero, zilch, nada. In addition, sucralose is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar. Very little of it is required. ...
“Sucralose is almost certainly safer than aspartame,” says Michael F. ... Diet Coke still uses aspartame, but a July 2013 study in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology found that aspartame does not cause health problems like cancer and cardiovascular disease. ...
or sour for most people; but to others it may taste sweet. The FDA currently permits a maximum of 0.1% benzoate in foods. Soft drinks are the number one source of sodium benzoate in the diet. On its own, it is not considered toxic, and studies show no adverse health effects in humans...