Aspartame is the artificial sweetener that people love to hate. It's also one of the most common alternatives to sugar, found in over 6,000 products and sold as NutraSweet® and Equal®.

A dietitian lends her expertise. Aspartame is an artificial, nonnutritive sweetener used worldwide as a food additive in more ...

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 ...

A World Health Organization agency has classified aspartame, an artificial sweetener widely used in diet drinks and low-calorie foods, as possibly carcinogenic to humans. Getty Images How much ...

Aspartame is a synthetic sweetener that was created in 1965. It is estimated to be more than 150 times as sweet as sugar, and is commonly used as a sugar replacement in drinks, food products, and ...

Billionaire Elon Musk, who heads Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is also a Diet Coke fan, has also made ...

A widely used artificial sweetener, aspartame, commonly found in diet beverages, chewing gum, and low-sugar yogurts, may elevate insulin levels, potentially increasing the risk of heart disease ...

which is lower than other types of sweetener, such as sucralose and advantame. The FDA suggests people can safely consume up to 50 mg/kg of body weight of aspartame, which is higher than their ...

Aspartame a methyl ester L-aspartylphenylalanine, is a widely used sweetener. The intake of aspartame was studied in 51 adults 23 of whom were carriers for phenylketonuria (PKU). The study was ...

Mice on the aspartame diet had persistently high insulin levels, suggesting that long-term consumption of this artificial sweetener may lead to insulin resistance, which greatly increases the risk ...

To our knowledge, aspartame-associated migraines related to clinically relevant positive reactions to formaldehyde on patch testing have not previously been reported. In 2003, Hill and Belsito ...