do you think aspartame is dangerous?!

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>If it were dangerous, the FDA would take the additive off the approved GRAS list (Generally Recognized As Safe). The government doesn't want to poison you and neither do the food companies.

This is the same kind of hysteria that there is about flouride in water or food colorants...or just about any other food additive. If we got rid of all food additives, we would have crappy food. In a world where we need to feed billions of people every day, we have to have processed, safe food because its not possible for everyone to have a garden in their back yard and to eat everything fresh all the time. Same thing goes with soda pop...

I am a diabetic, I cannot consume sugar or HFCS or corn syrup or honey or any other source of that stuff - so people like me depend on sweeteners like aspartame and splenda, among others.

If you don't like aspartame, stop drinking the soda or drinks with it in there...but don't tell me I can't have it.

o, aspartame CAN cause sever Kidney damage, along with cancer if consumed in large amounts.

Sucralose is also basically another form of sugar, I'm diabetic type 1 and whenever consumed as " sugar Free" and it's sucralose my blood sugar rises. ( Oh and btw, splenda is a.k.a. sucralose)

Now aspartame will not rise blood sugar levels but take warning, consume at your own risk... I used to consume tons of diet coke with aspartame... and I have been told by my diabetic doctor I have to stop. Which thank God I did!

Almost any edible substance on the planet will cause damage if consumed to excess, or if you have an allergy or sensitivity to it. Of course. Aspartame is fine for most people, when consumed in moderation. Otherwise, it would have been pulled from the shelves like saccharine was.

I'm not sure there are conflicting information all over the place. It's probably not that bad as some people make it out to be.
I don't care personally, I stay away from it since that horrible taste drowns out all the other tastes and I rather just have some plain tap water that that horrible tasting stuff.

My tastebuds?

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