First time I had it in a soft drink, I got a severe headache and threw up. Thought it could have been from something but rinse and repeat the next time. Same thing when I drank some years later and again after that. Yeah, took a while to learn that lesson.
>Aspartame is in Equal, and most of the “blue packet” sweeteners.<
Right, and I’ll quit using Equal when they pry that blue packet from my cold, dead hands.
The blue one is not aspartame, the pink is. The stuff in Mio and diet rite cola is another artificial sweetener, I cannot eat that one. Stomach upset very quickly, then quick trips to the throne. I never have notice ill effects from aspartame though. SUCRALOSE...that is the nasty. I used electrolyte replacements with it as an ingredient one summer while painting my sisters house, I kept the steady trail to the toylot, and replaced the fluids with that stuff until I was dehydrated. It did not work as an electrolyte replacement. Drink pickle juice, water and iced tea while eating melons.