[SMGFan]

people chose to switch rather than acquire a taste for the new version of diet Pepsi

[editor-surveyor]

Aspartame can literally make you blind.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I have a friend who had a severe toxic reaction to aspertame. It took about a year for her to get cleaned out and back to normal. I think she used it a lot, though, because her mother worked for Nutrasweet and brought the stuff home.

[PAR35]

New Diet Pepsi - the biggest thing in soft drinks since New Coke.

[kanawa]

Diet Pepsi in front of me has Apertame...124mg/355ml.
Guess it’s been a different formula in Canada.
I like Diet Pepsi way more than Diet Coke.
Looking at a Diet Coke...131mg/355ml.

[SueRae]

I’ll hold out for Tab when they bring back cyclamates. I was still an early teen but knew the b.s. they used to pull that off the market was junk science. Give a lab rat the equalivalent of ten cases of soda a day..somethings bound to happen. I’d take the old cyclamate over aspartame but truth is, I rarely drink a soda anymore. When I do, I opt for the tiny cans with the real sugar in it.

[Swede Girl]

I love Diet Rite Cola...no aspartame! Very good, too,

[Ronin]

I’ll drink water.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

No! They’re messing with Pepsi Max!

[cva66snipe]

The only Pepsi I have liked in the past 25 years is with Splenda. But name brands are out of my grocery budget so I buy Laura Lynn Diet Cokes with Splenda. Great taste as good as a sugar sweetened coke. I can buy a 24 pack for under $6. It's the only drink besides Peak Tea that I like and when I buy Peak I buy unsweetened and add Splenda myself. If I added sugar I would gain weight like crazy because of how much I'd consume. They only thing about carbonated drinks is simply the fact it makes you want to eat more. As for Splenda it has Zero Calories, Zero Fat, and Zero Carbs. The munchies is what makes you crave due to carbonation that adds on the extra pounds. In that respect you have to watch what you snack on.

Any food from natural ones nothing added or on the other spectrum artificial sweeteners or processed foods all have the potential to cause an allergic or auto-immune triggered reaction in some persons. I had to give up processed meats such as any and all Bologna and some brands of hotdogs. I have to limit my amount of MSG also and meat tenderizers.