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!

Snuffle - my Pepsi is flat, will my teeth be OK?

Where is the definitive source for it being safe?

there is no definitive source that most stuff is safe.

Well I don't care what the science behind it is.

I hate the stuff, it tastes vile and I have made the decision not to buy anything with it in and not to give it to my kids.
I would rather they had natural sugars (in moderation) than nasty tasting chemicals.
My kids have always drunk fruit juice and water and now they are older they drink the 50% fruit squash.
I'm not saying it causes cancer or brain tumours or whatever the story is but I don't want my kids to be pumped full of chemicals.

It tastes disgusting, which is more than enough reason for me to avoid it.

thehouse you'd be hard pushed to find definitive anything in this day and age. The safety of all foods and drinks, artificially produced or not, is constantly under scrutiny. However the NHS take on aspartame makes it pretty clear that it's safe. I trust it more than websites the have the word "conspiracy" in the URL.

It's impossible to prove that anything is 100% safe.

But I'm not a dog. So it's all good.
Maidofstars, I don't think I know you, believe me I've been banging on about this for years!

Risky, you opted for the sugary option. Not sure if the increased sugar mitigates lower carbonic acid concentration. Someone must have done a study on it somewhere at some point. But then how good was that study? We're their methods valid?

I'll happily perform your ECHO and blood cultures to check the decay hasn't given you infective endocarditis though.

choosing a soft drink is a risky business

Is it true that it is banned in the USA? Or is that just another rumour?

Diet Pepsi dropped it in the USA. It's not banned.

I hate the stuff, it tastes vile and I have made the decision not to buy anything with it in

I don't like either. That's fine. It's when people start claiming it's going to kill you that's the issue

Of course the biggest cause of death is...

...life.

Ban it! Ban it now!!!

I really wouldnt go on the USA. They banned kinder eggs for being dangerous, but think buying guns from the corner shop is fine.

heavens2betsy tell me how you do that please? animals are pumped full of chemicals before they are killed. crops and veg are sprayed with chemicals before they reach the shelf. water has chemicals pumped into - fresh food and tinned food in supermarkets have chemicals in them to keep them fresh longer

I don't believe there is anything you will have which doesn't have chemicals in it.

It makes me itch violently all over.

How do you define 'chemical'? Please tell me

Everything is made from chemicals .....

It tastes absolutely horrible. I did read this the other day about how it, maybe, disrupts how the body deals with sugar/sweet things though

It makes my dd1 lose continence.
That's a pretty big side effect.

It also tastes shit.

I object to the way 'low sugar' is made to sound all healthy and virtuous, as if ALL that has happened is that they put less sugar in.

When in fact it just means that edible artificial foul-tasting chemicals have been added instead.

Love it when people complain about it containing 'chemicals'

I avoid it as it gives me terrible stomach cramps and headaches, I wouldn't tell anyone it's toxic though. I can't eat strawberries either especially in hayfever season, but I don't claim they are toxic either

What does annoy me is my husband claims because he saw something on the news saying sweetners don't affect most people, then I'm making it up that it affects me

What also frustrates me is that it's creeping into more and more drinks, I drink a lot of squash, but my choice is getting narrowed down a lot, there is basically high juice, and even then there isn't many!

If I drink aspartame it goes straight through me, has same effect on DD. Not harmful, but can be inconvenient

We'll stick to real sugar

It's Acesulfame K that I react to.

There is an acceptable daily intake, for both substances, apparently.

You can't avoid Phenylalanine (well I can I'm Vegan, Polishes Halo), because it's a naturally occurring chemical found in Animal sources of Protein.