{"id":250115,"date":"2023-06-30T19:37:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=250115"},"modified":"2023-06-30T19:40:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:10:23","slug":"what-is-aspartame-the-additive-in-your-diet-cola-which-the-who-may-declare-as-possibly-carcinogenic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-aspartame-the-additive-in-your-diet-cola-which-the-who-may-declare-as-possibly-carcinogenic\/","title":{"rendered":"What is aspartame, the additive in your diet cola, which the WHO may declare as \u2018possibly carcinogenic\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span><b>e <\/b><b>\u201c<\/b><b>What is aspartame, the additive in your diet cola, which the WHO may declare as \u2018possibly carcinogenic\u2019?<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span> <b>Indian Express <\/b><b>on <\/b><b>29th June 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The World Health Organisation(WHO) will be listing the popular sugar substitute aspartame as \u201cpossibly carcinogenic to humans\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Aspartame?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aspartame is a methyl ester of the dipeptide of two natural amino acids, L-aspartic acid and L-phenylalanine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aspartame is about 200 times sweeter than table sugar.It is far less sweet than other artificial sweeteners like advantame and neotame but even then, 1 gram of aspartame has the sweetness intensity of about 8 gm of sugar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is used in a wide range of diet soft drinks, sugar-free chewing gum, sugar-free ice cream, sugar-free breakfast cereals, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Is Aspartame dangerous?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 100 countries around the world including India, permit the use of aspartame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is\u00a0 also a broad scientific consensus on the safety of aspartame for all groups of people except one \u2014 those suffering from phenylketonuria (PKU).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Phenylketonuria(PKU) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a rare inherited disorder in which the patient does not have the enzyme that is needed to break down phenylalanine, one of the two amino acids in aspartame.Foods containing aspartame carry the warning \u201cNot for phenylketonurics\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWhat is aspartame, the additive in your diet cola, which the WHO may declare as \u2018possibly carcinogenic\u2019?\u201d published in Indian Express on 29th June 2023 What is the News? The World Health Organisation(WHO) will be listing the popular sugar substitute aspartame as \u201cpossibly carcinogenic to humans\u201d. What&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-aspartame-the-additive-in-your-diet-cola-which-the-who-may-declare-as-possibly-carcinogenic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is aspartame, the additive in your diet cola, which the WHO may declare as \u2018possibly carcinogenic\u2019?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-250115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}