Sugar substitutes like erythritol and aspartame are used in many everyday household goods – chewing gum, canned food, diet sodas jellies ... used to sweeten without adding many calories or ...

But it doesn't mean we should stop consuming aspartame or diet sodas. Barry Popkin, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, told NBC ...

Aspartame, a popular artificial sweetener found in diet sodas, chewing gum, yogurt and other food products, is a “possible carcinogen” but it remains safe to consume at the existing daily ...

In a 1981 report, JECFA said that an adult weighing 60kg (132 pounds) would have to drink between 12 and 36 cans of diet soda – depending on the amount of aspartame in the beverage – every day ...