These include popular options like aspartame, sucralose, stevia and monk fruit extract. Found in many diet drinks, sugar-free snacks and low-calorie foods, these sweeteners are designed to help ...

A recent study reveals that aspartame, a common sugar substitute, could have detrimental effects on cardiovascular health. Illustration image from Unsplash Researchers have discovered that aspartame ...

Aspartame (E951) is used in over 6,000 food and beverage products (CCC), including Diet Coke, Fanta Zero and Wrigley’s sugar-free chewing gum. But mounting concerns over the potential health ...

(1) There’s a scientific reason for that. Over time, aspartame, the artificial sweetener in Diet Coke, breaks down due to a chemical reaction known as ester hydrolysis. Here’s what’s happening inside ...

In response to Klein’s tweet, Adam Ozimek of the Modeled Behavior blog quickly mounted a vigorous defense of aspartame, the artificial sweetener of choice for the soda industry. Ozimek denounced ...

Current research does not suggest that drinking Diet Coke or other beverages with aspartame will increase the risk of cancer. Aspartame, an artificial sweetener, is found in foods and drinks like ...

Aspartame has been sweetening diet soda and other sugar-free products since the 1980s, and its safety seemed established. But that certainty changed in July last year after an arm of the World ...

While scientists have not yet specifically looked into whether aspartame can cause constipation, some research indicates it may affect a person’s gut microbiota. However, the results are ...

Pregnant or breastfeeding women who consume diet soda or other foods and drinks containing aspartame could experience higher rates of autism diagnoses in their sons, a new study has revealed.

It tasted sweet—much sweeter than sugar. Schlatter had just discovered aspartame, an artificial sweetener that would be heralded as a breakthrough in food chemistry and weight loss. But the ...

Despite the World Health Organization’s recent warning about it, aspartame doesn’t pose a cancer risk, the FDA and industry experts insist — but given that the artificial sweetener is used ...