Originally Posted by epicurian:
“I drink Diet Coke, so you can say I actively seek aspartame.
It's made by joining together the amino acids (the building blocks of life) aspartic acid and phenylalanine. An 8-oz glass of milk has six times more phenylalanine and thirteen times more aspartic acid than an equivalent amount of pop sweetened with aspartame.
And an 8-oz glass of fruit juice or tomato juice contains three to five times more methanol than an equivalent amount of soda sweetened with aspartame. http://www.joslin.org/info/correctin...aspartame.html
People with the rare genetic disease, phenylketonuria know they have to avoid anything with phenylalanine, not just aspartame, but other than that, I do wonder what it is about this sweetener (and not milk or fruit juice) that has so many people declaring it poison, especially when so many controlled studies have been done which have not shown a correlation of aspartame use with any of the adverse reactions people claim.”
“I drink Diet Coke, so you can say I actively seek aspartame.
It's made by joining together the amino acids (the building blocks of life) aspartic acid and phenylalanine. An 8-oz glass of milk has six times more phenylalanine and thirteen times more aspartic acid than an equivalent amount of pop sweetened with aspartame.
And an 8-oz glass of fruit juice or tomato juice contains three to five times more methanol than an equivalent amount of soda sweetened with aspartame. http://www.joslin.org/info/correctin...aspartame.html
People with the rare genetic disease, phenylketonuria know they have to avoid anything with phenylalanine, not just aspartame, but other than that, I do wonder what it is about this sweetener (and not milk or fruit juice) that has so many people declaring it poison, especially when so many controlled studies have been done which have not shown a correlation of aspartame use with any of the adverse reactions people claim.”
Careful, those are facts, something the anti-Aspartame brigade don't believe in.



