The International Agency for Research on Cancer identified a possible link between aspartame and a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma.
  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Good riddance. Regardless of whether the allegation of being dangerous are true or not, anything that takes aspartame out of the food industry is good.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If aspertame replaces sugar or removing aspertame causes more sugar consumption, hell no. You might not care for the flavor, but sugar is much worse for people than aspertame. There are better sweeteners though. Stevia is pretty good, in my opinion, and you can grow and extract your own with fairly little effort.

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I drink a lot of Coke Zero and mainly went on it because sugar taxes were making regular Coca Cola far more expensive.

    The notion that big soda corporations are giving us cancer is quite concerning.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The almost certainly aren’t. Typically the quantities used in these tests are absurd if scaled up to a human. It also very well may not have the same effect in a human.

      As long as you aren’t shoveling aspertame into your mouth, it’s almost certainly less than the equivalent amount they tested on these mice.

      Quote from the article: “An adult weighing 70 kilograms or 154 pounds would have to drink more than nine to 14 cans of aspartame-containing soda such as Diet Coke daily to exceed the limit and potentially face health risks”

      Aka, you’re fine.