Not particularly, no. Aspartame's a small peptide (protein), and probably one of the most-tested food chemicals around. It will take a lifetime of people drinking the stuff to even vaguely see if there are any chronic effects, of course. But American palates and American policy don't want to wait that long to put new technologies in the foodstream.
It's not really a great sweetener, though it was a big improvement over saccharin when it came out. It's not very heat-stable or pH-stable.
It's very bad for people with a rare disease called phenylketonuria. And I'm sure there are some people who don't respond well to it. There's not any actually reason you need to consume it either, so if it worries you, don't. I'd only worry about saccharin and cyclamate, if I were prone to worry about these things. Or red dye. Red dye is worrisome.
Or you can worry about Donald Rumsfeld, which I think was actually the vixen's concern.
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Date: 2003-04-03 09:10 am (UTC)It's not really a great sweetener, though it was a big improvement over saccharin when it came out. It's not very heat-stable or pH-stable.
It's very bad for people with a rare disease called phenylketonuria. And I'm sure there are some people who don't respond well to it. There's not any actually reason you need to consume it either, so if it worries you, don't. I'd only worry about saccharin and cyclamate, if I were prone to worry about these things. Or red dye. Red dye is worrisome.
Or you can worry about Donald Rumsfeld, which I think was actually the vixen's concern.