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The WHO declared aspartame "possibly" causes cancer. Here’s what that means. | Vox (www.vox.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The "zero" beverages are usually sweetened with Sucrolose primarily. Not Aspertame. Though I've seen some with primarily Sucrolose and also Aspertame as a secondary ingredient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Mountain dew has aspartame

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The original selling point was partly that it wasn't aspartame, but I think that's changing to the mixture since some people react poorly to sucrolose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The original selling point was partly that it wasn’t aspartame,

Was it? I thought it was just an angle to use a better tasting sweetener than Aspertame. Sucrolose tastes much closer to sugar than Aspertame does, probably because Sucrolose's chemical structure is very close to sucrose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah some of the Diet brands were running as "aspartame free" when it was gaining popularity