Topic: Artificial sweeteners

Cans of Diet Coke in a supermarket, as an artificial sweetener commonly used in thousands of products including diet fizzy drinks, ice cream and chewing gum is to be listed as posing a possible cancer risk to humans, according to reports. (Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)

Aspartame's cancer risks explained

Matthew Rozsa
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Is it time for a sugar renaissance?

Evangeline Mantzioris - The Conversation
FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2009 file photo, Pepsi drinks are on display at JJ&F Market in Palo Alto, Calif. PepsiCo says it’s dropping aspartame from Diet Pepsi in response to customer feedback and replacing it with sucralose, another artificial sweetener commonly known as Splenda. The decision to swap sweeteners comes as Americans keep turning away from popular diet sodas. Coca-Cola said this week of April 20, 2015, that sales volume for Diet Coke fell 5 percent in North America in the first three months of the year.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (AP)

The science of sugar substitutes

Jamie Pitlick - The Conversation