The World Health Organization's research arm is expected to label aspartame, a key sweetener in Coca-Cola diet sodas, sugar free foods and tabletop sweeteners, as a possible cause of cancer.
Aspartame is a common artificial sweetener that has been in use since 1981. It is found in beverages like Coke Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, Sprite Zero, Pepsi Zero Sugar and Mountain Dew Zero Sugar; diet drink mixes, including Crystal Light; sugar-free condiments, such as Log Cabin Sugar-Free Syrup; sugar-free Jell-O; sugar free gums, such as Trident; non-sugar sweeteners, including Equal and NutraSweet; cough drops, some toothpastes, and other products.
The sweetener has been reviewed multiple times by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, for example, which says aspartame is safe for the general population. Qi Sun, an associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, noted to CNN that the cancer research committee’s range of carcinogens is broad. For example, it considers mobile phones as “possible carcinogens,” a classification that indicates that a product has ““I feel the evidence is pretty sparse to say either way to say, ‘aspartame is cancerous’ or to suggest that aspartame is not as carcinogenic,” he said.
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