Bloody aspartame poisoning...

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Is not real and has been disproved time and time again. Aibu to get cross every time someone says its toxic blah blah blah! There is one group of people who should avoid it if they have a certain rare condition otherwise it's completely safe.
Rant over!

pippin it's perfectly fine to like the taste of aspartame. I don't believe it's bad for us.

I don't like Brussels sprouts but plenty love them.

I honestly don't notice the aspartame taste - I know it's different to sugar, when I have normal Coke it taste very different, well, vile and over sweet if you ask me, so perhaps aspartame is more bitter. Never notice an aftertaste though.

Stevia on the other hand... Yuck! Now that really does have an aftertaste, have you tired Coke Life? It's really bitter. They're fond of it in the US so you get it in more drinks there. I can notice it instantly (never understood how that woman in Breaking Bad could add it to her tea constantly, grim! Better the ricin tasted better ). The annoying thing is they're only pushing stevia because it's plant based and people are irrational about aspartame. I know which I'd rather drink.

AppleSetsSail my DH drinks 2 X 2 litre bottles of Pepsi Max a day, I'm thinking of donating his body to medical research to study the effects of aspartame .

Bet the ricin tasted better, that is.

I drank Stevia when I was pregnant the first time, but my SIL tells me that it's no longer considered the healthy alternative?

AppleSetsSail my DH drinks 2 X 2 litre bottles of Pepsi Max a day, I'm thinking of donating his body to medical research to study the effects of aspartame wink.

His innards will be delightfully caramel-coloured and well-preserved, just like mine.

I just watched the Lydia/stevia episode recently, LOLz.

My first thing out of bed routine is an intensive teeth-brushing session, a glug of mouthwash, and a refreshing diet coke. What a delightfully clean taste this leaves.

AppleSetsSail do you really drink 12 cans of Diet Coke each day? That must cost a bob or two!

Stevia is still healthy, its just a herb.

I have the actual dried leaves that I use to sweeten somethings.

Aspartame makes my mouth dry. I've tried sugar free squash after running around in my childcare job and worked out it takes 3 cups of squash to refresh me as much as one cup of water! I noticed it with the kids too! It's disgusting stuff.

Wasabi...I'm into fruit teas too.

Can't stand artificial sweeteners whether they are bad for you or not.

I don't drink soft drinks .iced fruit teas are lovely.

HeadDreamer to you, not too me!
pippin me too!
ijon i love cokelife!!!

Can't stand artificial sweeteners whether they are bad for you or not.

I feel the same about tomatoes and liquorice allsorts.... Your point is?

I suspect the point is, if that poster can't stand them anyway, it really doesn't bother them if some people think they are toxic...

Would you care to start a thread on how cross you get that some people like Liquorice Allsorts, if that's what you'd rather talk about?

I think the point is that artificial sweeteners seem to be making their way into more and more foodstuffs, under this 'low sugar' banner of healthy wonderfulness, and even products that aren't labelled as such. It's cheaper for the manufacturers which is probably one of the main reasons it's being pushed on us.

I hate the taste of stevia but I get no horrible taste, or aftertaste, from aspartame.

The person who'd done all their "research" and then linked to Mercola... lol.

I can definitely taste aspartame. Not as bad as saccharine, but it still very much taints whatever it's in for me.

There was a programme on BBC2 last night called Trust Me, I'm A Doctor. They had a segment on artificial sweetners, no mention of 'poison' but in their (small) study they concluded that in most people taking saccharin for a week spiked blood sugar to near diabetic levels! Stevia in contrast didn't have much of an effect on the guinea pigs' blood sugar levels. They only mentioned aspartame in passing but I think they were implying it had the same effect as saccharin.

They think it's down to the effect that some sweeteners have on gut bacteria.

It's on the iplayer if you want to take a look.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06wp7jc/trust-me-im-a-doctor-series-4-episode-2

I believe that one of the major issues with artificial sweeteners is that the sweet taste causes your brain to expect an influx of sugar, which leads to cravings when it doesn't come to pass. This is why you may have causality between sweeteners & diabetes.

I think it's possible that heavy users of aspartame have trained their bodies out of this reaction, and my wildly unsubstantiated theory is that people who love aspartame tend to have savoury weaknesses rather than sweet.

YY Apple and this article (sorry it is DM) looks at that

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2382095/Are-low-calorie-sweeteners-making-fat.html

The thing that I REALLY object to is that most of the 'low sugar' marketing is targeted at children. Proper low sugar advice should be to encourage children to drink water not squash and fizzy drinks (diet or otherwise) - maybe with watered-down fruit juice as an occasional treat. Also to limit sweets and use less sugar (not sugar substitutes) in baking etc.

Aspartame is a substance that we are not designed to eat. There's no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to food!

Stevia is still healthy, its just a herb

Sugar cane is just a plant.

Cocaine is just plant.

Lots of things are just plants/herbs.

I try to eat natural in all ways at home. I'm not anal about it We still have take always and chocs and cakes etc. but I believe eating as nature intended most of the time has got to be better for you in the long term than eating the contents of a chemistry lab.