Little rumination is required to reach this conclusion: Cows don't make aspartame. But they don't make strawberry flavoring, either. This is relevant to a debate that inv[...]
Got diet milk? In a highly controversial move, the dairy industry wants to market artificially sweetened milk—without any special label to alert consumers. In a petition file[...]
The dairy industry wants to spike your children's milk with aspartame and other chemical sweeteners — and keep it a secret from parents. In a truly mind-boggling p[...]
The safety of aspartame — the artificial sweetener sold under the brand names Equal and NutraSweet — has been the subject of many studies over the years. But despite al[...]
A new study using mice as models showed that two additives often put in everyday foods to enhance flavor and reduce calories can actually cause an increase in fasting blood glucose[...]
The European Food Safety Authority is moving up a review of the artificial sweetener aspartame originally scheduled for 2020. In doing so, EFSA will be writing another chapter in [...]
The average American increased their consumption of HFCS (mostly from sugar sweetened drinks and processed food) from zero to more than 60 pounds per person per year. During that t[...]
No good deed goes unpunished, and that seems to include people who virtuously reach for diet sodas instead of the calorie-laden good stuff. Before guzzling that artificially[...]
(CBS) Sorry, soda lovers – even diet drinks can make you fat. That's the word from authors of two new studies, presented Sunday at a meeting of the American Diabetes Ass[...]