Aspartame is an artificial sweetener commonly found in products like chewing gum, soft drinks and tabletop sweeteners, but ...

A year-long experiment found that even low doses of aspartame—well below current safety limits—may disrupt brain energy use ...

The artificial sweetener aspartame can be found in everything from chewing gum to fizzy drinks and tabletop sweeteners. A new ...

A study by CIC biomaGUNE and Biogipuzkoa HRI conducted on mice has found that the prolonged intake of sweeteners may exert harmful effects on the function of various organs. Artificial sweeteners are ...

Effects on body weight Aspartame contains 4 calories per gram (g), which is a similar amount to sugar, but aspartame is around 200 times sweeter than sugar. This means that only a tiny amount of ...

Aspartame, a sweetener found in Diet Coke and other sugar-free products, has been found to be possibly carcinogenic in high doses. Two groups linked to the World Health Organisation (WHO) released a ...

Aspartame, an artificial sweetener widely found in diet sodas, chewing gum and sugar-free foods, was labeled a "possible carcinogen" Thursday by the World Health Organization's International Research ...

The FDA and the WHO differ in their stances on the safety of aspartame, a widely used artificial sweetener. Getty Images Two food-safety titans are clashing over aspartame, the artificial sweetener ...

The artificial sweetener aspartame may cause cancer, a World Health Organization-affiliated research group declared Thursday, even as another group linked to the international health body said the ...

Just last month, the World Health Organization and the International Agency for Research of Cancer announced that they’d both be researching the link between aspartame and cancer, as reported by the ...

Diet Coke fanatics have been screaming, crying, and throwing up since aspartame, the sweetening agent in the soda, was declared “possibly carcinogenic to humans” last week. The new, worryingly worded ...

It is not clear if aspartame helps people lose weight, as it may also increase appetite and affect a person’s metabolism. Aspartame may also have other negative health effects and be unsafe for some ...