Warning -Aspartame now in J20 Apple and Mango

[Nansrus]

I have a couple of family members who have an allergic reaction to aspartame. It is real, as when unknowingly given some when dining out the reaction has been immediate. So I always search for drinks for them without aspartame for when they come round. J20 has always been a firm favourite and imagine my horror when I went to serve some the other day and just checking casually found it had aspartame in! I e mailed the company and the response
" I can confirm that we have added Aspartame to only the J2O Apple and Mango flavour.

As we are sure you will appreciate, we carry out extensive consumer research before putting any products in to the market place and we have found this product to be popular with our consumers. It is, however, extremely difficult to formulate a product to suit every palate. "

Why it was fine with sugar,why add aspartame as well you don't need both!

Leave the b*** drink alone.

Yes, please do quote me. Get the bastards to take some responsibility.

I hate all the blardy cover-up about health issues.

Allergic is one thing.
Not much evidence for the other scaremongering stuff

I know it makes me feel like shite..

No peer-reviewed meta-analysis to back that, but what ever

Yeah, time for the old cliche to come out: the plural of anecdotes is not data, blah blah blah.

Anyway cancer in rats is pretty strong evidence.

I do know we're not rats, though.

Oh.. of all people I'm the one to say that the pleural of anecdote isn't data

(because I understand these things, innit )

Civilon - rats are used for a ver ver good reason. They wouldn't waste a million rat/mouse lives for shits and giggles.

oooh, aren't I arsery tonight.

soz.

And the people who come out with that cliche can never spell.

I understand both medicine and the English language.

The point to me is that it is used unnecessarily by the drinks industry to save money.
It tastes vile and ruins the taste of anything it is put in.
If people want to buy diet drinks with artificial sweeteners it is up to them, but artificial sweeteners should be banned from any thing else.

And the people who keep coming out with the cliche "The plural of anecdotes is not data" are also rude and abusive. I wonder if there's a correlation.

We avoid anything which has artificial sweeteners listed in the ingredients.
Its nasty, harmful, vile rubbish, and tastes as it costs: CHEAP!
We'd rather have the sugar. (and no, we are not an overweight bunch here! )

Aspartame. Worraloadofoldshit.

Sugar is less harmful than aspartame, which should be banned.

I didn't know it was in Calpol - that's scandalous.

It's not aspartame in Calpol (or at least it wasn't in the sugared version about 3 years ago when I last read the ingredients). But the sugared version is not jsut sugar, it also has sweeteners. which kind of defeats the object, surely?

I am having difficulty in finding all the ingredients for all Calpols on- line, just have to go in Boots pick them all up and write down the ingredients!

But,Calpol Six Plus Fastmelts contain aspartame, which is a source of phenylalanine equivalent to 0.04 mg/250 mg tablet. The phenylalanine in the tablets may be harmful to people with phenylketonuria.(PKU)
Also on the sugar free Calpol it contains E214, E216, E218 which are not allowed to be used in France and Australia and not recommended to be consumed by children! So what the hell are they doing in Calpol.

Still searching.

Sorry to just jump in here.
I avoid aspartame always but are there others I should be avoiding to?
I give my dc Calpol normally Boots own. Worrying about their little brains now.
I was drinking Sainsburys own soft drinks as they don't use aspartame, well cola zero doesn't.
Does anyone actually know how long aspartame stays in the body?

I'm so sorry for so many questions but goggle is a minefield and people in RL when I've mentioned aspartame and it's effects have looked at me as if I am mad or lying.

OP I am shocked by the sugar free cal

Calpol* Info

I got little ones Calpol for my DS the other day and read the ingredients of both the sugar and sugar free versions. Neither said aspartame or that they contained a source of phenylalanine.

I check labels obsessively for aspartame. I'm disappointed by this change to j2o.

Thanks Jolly

Its really thoughtless that manufactures use this in food drink and medicines ....do they not care about people with pku ?

My DD has PKU, the sugared Calpol does not contain aspartame. It contains sucrose, E420, E214, E216, E218 and E122. I have checked and checked again and checked again! Aspartame is E951. As far as i understand they are not allowed to use it in infant medicines but I do still check everything every time and i think its out of order it is in the six plus calpol.

TBH droves I don't think the manufacturers care about PKU sufferers at all, just their profit margins.

Sorry for delay in answering.
JollySantaJackrum, unfortunately they don't always put all ingredients on the packaging I think there is some loop hole that if an ingredient is contained within an ingredient they don't have to list it. Also Aspartame has several different names and numbers.There are quite a few different Calpol products now all with different ingredients ,I maybe cynical but I think this is done to confuse.
The 6+ fastmelts do have it in.

I gleaned this from the Ecologist
Calpol of course doesn't just contain paracetamol. It is a veritable cocktail of sweeteners, flavourings, preservatives and colourants to make the product appealing and palatable to infants. These additives include strawberry 'flavouring' and carmoisine (E122- , banned in Austria, Japan, Norway, Sweden and the US) to produce its pink colour.

I wil continue to do some more research before I attack the company concerned. I think it is Johnson and Johnson.

PS
I am still composing an e-mail full of quotes on here about Aspartame and J20 to send to Britvic, if anyone wants to add please do. People power does sometimes work!