Aspartame In Sugar Free & Diet Products Declared As Possible Carcinogen By WHO

[RAMROD 118,042]

One of the world's most common artificial sweeteners is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, according to two sources with knowledge of the process, pitting it against the food industry and regulators.

Aspartame, used in products from Coca-Cola diet sodas to Mars' Extra chewing gum and some Snapple drinks, will be listed in July as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" for the first time by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer research arm, the sources said.

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/whos-cancer-research-agency-say-aspartame-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-sources-2023-06-29/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

[LG10 14,150]

but seriously, this should have been done WAY WAY BACK

[Purrrrrr 18,412]

I thought this was known already

[Knife 7,107]

This is not the news I wanted to wake up to as someone that regularly buys a 12 packs of Coke Zero. 

[GypsyVida 5,960]

We already knew it's worse for you than sugar, so this isn't surprising at all.

[TheSine 6,975]

I thought people knew this already. Scary, Scary, scary. 

[Defmix100 7,172]

Is this true? I heard it years ago but had to double check now

"Apparently the E. coli are grown in tanks and, as they defecate, their fecal matter is harvested because it contains aspartic acid-phenylalanine amino acid –the protein needed to make the aspartame. These fecal proteins are then treated with methanol to produce the artificial sweetener."

[INNA 3,791]

We all could afford to pay more attention to what we consume, especially in the US since the gov seemingly doesn't care if we perish, and the FDA is essentially a facade to make us feel protected when we're really not

[Karl 3,584]

And yet in the UK we have a sugar tax encouraging drinks and food companies to replace sugar with carcinogenic artificial ones to avoid the tax 

To my knowledge in the UK there are only three soft drinks that don't contain any sweetener, Coke, Pepsi and MTN Dew, every other brand even the full fat ones such as Fanta, Dr Pepper etc have half sugar half sweetener to comply with the sugar tax.

[SharkmanthaC 115,282]

I’ve been wanting to switch to Diet Coke because of less calories/sugar but have been questioning it. (Especially since I hope to be pregnant in the near future.) I guess I’ll stick to my regular coke but in moderation. 

[high culture 2,376]

I was raised with this information. I never ever drink diet pop and forever I've told people the aspartame is cancerous. Everyone was like Noo nooo it's ok. Welp

[Bling 31,708]

Sharing this with my bf who wanted to buy Sweet N Low a few weeks ago 

[LaLa 19,912]

I chew a lot of gum so I guess I’m going to have to investigate this now 

update: PUR on order from amazon  hopefully trident get's it's sht together because I prefer gum without that hard shell 

[Magneto 13,587]

just

drink

water

[Oriane 23,003]

I remember the minute Coca Zero was released, my dad was like "nope, stick to the regular one in small quantities, it's always better than that".