Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions

Re:Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in m... by EamonnMR on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:07AM (#28345785)

This is the exact kind of FuD that I'm talking about. There is a whole world of low-calorie sweeteners, Aspartame isn't the only one by a long shot. As you pointed out It's uncanny potency means that the amount of metabolites you end up with is vanishingly small. For most people it does not cause any problems. Certainly fewer than the 100% of people who art consuming calories when they consume sugar.

My suggestion is that for any food, read the ingredients! If you don't like Aspartame and won't trust anything made in a lab go with Stevia.

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Re:Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in m... by crdrost on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:58PM (#28351257)

If you see me as FuD you might consider re-examining yourself?

Aspartame may not be the only one but it's absolutely the most common. And it really isn't very shelf stable and it really does taste nasty when it decays. If that's “FuD” then you're at war with taste buds?

Diet Pepsi switched to sucralose and had to switch back. Diet Coke sells a sucralose version but it's not at all popular. There are a couple smaller markets for offbeat sodas sweetened with stevia, but like someone else mentioned, stevia is a hella acquired taste, very soapy.

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Re:Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in m... by caturopath on Sunday August 29, 2021 @12:45PM (#28348255)

Both aspartame and stevia have definite tastes. I don't mind either and I actually like aspartame in a lot of places.

Sucralose and allulose have virtually no taste other than sweet.

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