Sad fact: Diet coke seemingly everywhere in the world other than the US contains ace K as well as aspartame. (I reckon that ace K is probably fine, but no other sweetener has the same evidence for safety as aspartame.)
I've heard the conspiracy theory that companies want to switch because aspartame is more expensive per "unit of sweetness". As far as I can tell, that's true, but I'm extremely skeptical of the theory because sugar (or corn syrup) is *much* more expensive than any of them and that doesn't seem to stop anyone from using sugar!
Also! When thinking about aspartame, I reckon that the fact that it immediately breaks down into three normal chemicals is an important part of the safety story. As far as we know, it would be mechanistically ~impossible for aspartame to have significant effects on anything outside the GI tract.
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Sad fact: Diet coke seemingly everywhere in the world other than the US contains ace K as well as aspartame. (I reckon that ace K is probably fine, but no other sweetener has the same evidence for safety as aspartame.)
Interesting. I didn't know that.
I've heard the conspiracy theory that companies want to switch because aspartame is more expensive per "unit of sweetness". As far as I can tell, that's true, but I'm extremely skeptical of the theory because sugar (or corn syrup) is *much* more expensive than any of them and that doesn't seem to stop anyone from using sugar!
Also! When thinking about aspartame, I reckon that the fact that it immediately breaks down into three normal chemicals is an important part of the safety story. As far as we know, it would be mechanistically ~impossible for aspartame to have significant effects on anything outside the GI tract.