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

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Mountain dew has aspartame

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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.