Should You Be Worried About Aspartame? Here's What The Research Says

Science Alert ^ | May 07, 2025 | Staff

[gundog]

”Abby someone....”

[FamiliarFace]

If something has cane sugar as an ingredient, I’ll buy it, but if it says high fructose corn syrup, I stay away as much as possible. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that in the body it does the same thing, but maybe it takes longer to convert? I don’t know.

I don’t drink soda anymore, so I wouldn’t know about the taste, but I’m sure the Mexican version would taste different/better. If you’re a Coke person, then it’s neat that you’ve found it.

[FamiliarFace]

I buy local honey. Where I live, it’s not hard to find. You just have to look for it.

[jerod]

Brought to you by the people who make sugar.

[fwdude]

I’ve switched to xylitol at home and stevia whenever possible when I eat out.

[NonValueAdded]

Stevia can be dangerous, just ask Heisenberg

[9YearLurker]

Just stop eating sweets and you’ll lose the taste for them.

[Red Badger]

xylitol will kill your dog...............

https://search.brave.com/search?q=xylitol+will+kill+your+dog&source=desktop&summary=1&conversation=8225c9e7eb1873de29f489

[sopo]

TDS

[algore]

I can find local honey easily where I live.

yesterday the office complex where I work put up a poster saying they were going to have tours of their beehives on some day next week.

It said you may not be aware that our office complex has 4 bee hives and we are proud to do our part to help natural pollination

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So will garlic, onions, chocolate, grapes and a bunch of other things.

Humans are quite tough in some ways.

[fwdude]

xylitol will kill your dog...............

I don't have a dog.... or a doghouse.

Does that make me gay?

(old Norm MacDonald joke)

[FamiliarFace]

That’s great!

[sauropod]

bkmk

[metmom]

If people ate real food, their tastes would change and sweet stuff would be far less appetizing to them.

Our tastes are corrupted by a high salt and high sugar diet from a very young age.

[philled]

My neighbor is a Professor of Logic!

[rlmorel]

I feel much the same way as you do, John Milner. Additionally, I tend to, out of the gate, discount anything these days from organizations with names like "Science Alert", and below is a summary of the first FOUR pages of articles from this website.

I get that many people have an axe to grind with Aspartame. Or with Donald Rumsfeld. That kind of thing.

Like Freepers Sequoyah101, Jerod (and others) it is always good to ask yourself "cui bono?" (who benefits?) when reading these things. It is good to keep in context where these kinds of "science" articles come from, and why they publish these kinds of things. I doubt that Red Badger is onboard with all these kinds of things being pushed by this website, and it may be true that.Red Badger may have reasons for not liking Aspartame or any other kind of artificial substance. Which is perfectly fine, even good.

So this post is not against Red Badger who I greatly respect...it is just information to consider the source!

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

That is true. I worked with a lot of immigrants who could not take the sweetness of Cola. They had such good diets of real food, they couldn’t take sweets. The wildest they got with beverages was unsweetened ice tea.

I had a prolonged sickness where I didn’t eat much over two weeks time. I felt better and had an apple. It was the best tasting apple I ever had, not because it was so good but because my taste buds had recalibrated back to a more normal state from the rich food I usually ate and so became accustomed to.

[fella]

Did the makers of aspartame finance the research?

[metmom]

Yup. Fruit should be sweet enough for us.

I’ve heard of others who said the same thing. Some time off sweets and fruit tasted wonderful again and was far more satisfying than before.