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Aspartame: The Surprisingly Interesting Science and History

The Stronger By Science Podcast

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The Skepticism of Aspartame

"There's a lot of smoke here, but there's not a fire," she says. "I am so sympathetic to people who would have assumed that they wouldn't be." Aspartame wasn't banned because of a public pressure campaign driven by the beverage industry,. By the time Aspartame was being introduced to scary warning label on saccharin packets, you have all of that context for why by the 80s, people were again very understandably skeptical and concerned about artificial sweeteners.

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