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Re:Why a cancer scare around aspartame is mostly unfounded by danzk on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @06:41AM (#37319971)
Aspartame is arguably the safest artificial sweetener. It's made of two naturally occurring amino acids and it's rapidly destroyed by the acidity of the digestive system.
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Re:Why a cancer scare around aspartame is mostly unfounded by speed_spread on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @07:07AM (#37320222)
...giving off formaldehyde in the process.

Plenty of natural things will kill you, fast or slow. Also, if you combine natural things together in an industrial process, the result isn't natural anymore.

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