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Aspartame: The Surprisingly Interesting Science and History

The Stronger By Science Podcast

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The Limits of Aspartame Consumption

If you consumed the maximum amount of aspartame that the current guidelines allow for which is 40 milligrams per kilogram, how much of each one of those products would you end up consuming and actually absorbing from the aspartame? What it turns out to be is about 1.68 grams of phenylalanine, about 1.36 grams of aspartate and about 163 milligrams of methanol. So basically if aspartame is carcinogenic, just the human diet is carcinogenic because when aspartame enters your body, like before it actually enters any of your cells, enters your bloodstream, anything like that, it is broken down entirely to phenylalan

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