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Re:Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to auti... by colordrops on Saturday September 30, 2023 @12:22PM (#37716954)
Hard to take your comment seriously when you conveniently leave out aspartame's third metabolite, methanol.
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Re:Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to auti... by sudosysgen on Saturday September 30, 2023 @02:07PM (#37718108)
Around ~25mg of methanol (35/294 molar ratio in aspartame, 200mg of aspartame in a can of diet coke) will be produced from the metabolism of aspartame, which is around 10x less by weight than, say, apples or peppers.
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Re:Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to auti... by colordrops on Saturday September 30, 2023 @07:08PM (#37720838)
That is irrelevant - the point was that they excluded one of the metabolites, not about whether any of the metabolites are safe or not.
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