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Aspartame: The Surprisingly Interesting Science and History

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The Effects of Aspartame on the Body

An adult weighing 70 kilograms or 154 pounds would have to drink 9 to 14 cans of aspartame containing soda. Even at the maximum aspartame consumption, you're still dealing with less phenylalanine aspartate and methanol than people consume in a normal diet. So just kind of on the front end, we should not anticipate that aspartame is particularly carcinogenic but it shouldn't be more carcinogenic than food writ large because when you absorb it, you are absorbing normal food products.

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