Ughhhh. Dupes such as aspartame, stevia, and sucralose (the main ingredient in Splenda) are sweet and have few or zero ...

Aspartame is about 200 times sweeter than sugar. Plant- and fruit-based sweeteners stevia, monk fruit and thaumatin are also deemed safe by the FDA. Stevia leaf and crude stevia extracts ...

KIDS shouldn’t be given drinks laden with artificial sweeteners, experts have warned over fears of long-term health issues.

aspartame, and stevia—and filled that gap in the literature by testing them in humans. Their findings, described today (August 19) in Cell, suggest these sweeteners do indeed alter the gut microbiome, ...

When we reach for ‘diet’ or ‘low sugar’ products, we think that we’re choosing the healthy option: eating a lot of sugar can make our blood sugar levels high and put us at risk of Type 2 ...

including extracts obtained from the stevia plant, swingle fruit extracts and a group of proteins called Thaumatin. Is aspartame used worldwide? More than 90 countries, including the United ...

In a 1981 report, JECFA said that an adult weighing 60kg (132 pounds) would have to drink between 12 and 36 cans of diet soda – depending on the amount of aspartame in the beverage – every day ...