French consumer rights groups call for ban on artificial sweetener aspartame • FRANCE 24 English

A leading French cancer charity and consumer rights groups have joined forces to call for a Europe-wide ban on a common artificial sweetener. La Ligue contre le cancer says the sweetener aspartame is used in 2,500 widely-consumed food products – though the World Health Organization has classifies it as “possibly carcinogenic”.
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  5. The only time I looked at artificial sweeteners was in a US hotel in the 1990s. I had the choice between sugar and two types of artificial sweeteners. One of the artificial sweeteners had a warning that it caused headaches, the other that it caused cancer. Nowadays I prefer my coffee black.

  14. Sugar is "possibly carcinogenic" too. Then we should abandon sweetening alltogether.
    I know this sounds impopular, but food isn't primarily there to "enjoy". It's there for nutrition first.

  18. Im in America. Im a 92 yr old Curmudgeonly fart, lol. I never liked any of those Artificial Sweetners. Ive known many who drink diet pops n they don't lose weight either,lol. I recommend you Eat n Drink like I have done all my 92 yrs. Eat REAL FOOD. Avoid any preservatives n fake sweetners. Then youll become a METHUSALA(sp.?) Like me 😂❤

  19. After all that has been made public about this toxic substance, if someone still chooses to consume it, they are not too bright.

  21. Why is it that soda SOLD in the USA does not have real sugar in it? They put Hydrogenated corn syrup instead. If it is sold in Europe, it has natural sugar in it.
    So if I am in the US and If I want to have taste of coca cola, I try to find the one imported from Mexico, that's right, the only one I found that has a real cane sugar in it, not a hydrogenated corn syrup. Glass bottles. Not all glass bottles, so read the labels, and on the back, there should be a paper label for imported product over the original label with ingredients, so you know you have the right product.
    So when you read on the front of the bottle or box "original formula" and it is made in the USA, they are lying to you. Read the back of the bottle, small print!
    Read the labels!!!
    If you don't drink a bottle of soda per day, but only drink occasionally! That much sugar should not harm you. But it does taste much much better than the one with corn syrup I swear! The ones with aspartame taste funny too. My taste buds are too sensitive and I can taste the repulsive "artificial vanilla" in a chocolate bar or a baking product, so maybe most people will not taste the difference in a soda, but give it a try. If you will taste a difference, you may as well stop drinking a "repulsive" ones as Mexican kind is not easily available. I buy it when I find it, couple of times in a local Stop and shop, a few times in the past in a Star Market, one time I had to buy a whole box on Amazon (at least it lasted me a long time as I am not a big soda drinker). As I was looking for a natural sugar in a soda in the USA, I had to do my research online, and sadly, I found more than I bargained for. You can read it below. But I still buy and drink soda when I want to stop nausea in hope to prevent vomiting, and when nothing else works and I suddenly remember that soda did help a few times in the past so I go for it. If I don't find the real deal, I buy what I find but without the aspartame. But occasionally, and never finish half a small bottle. I think what I've learned about the companies helps me "not to choke on it" as I feel very much aware that my few dollars will now do the environmental damage the company causing in order to make a huge profit, and I am being a hypocrite.

    They say Ginger helps, well, maybe for you, but for me a ginger ale helps and not a fake one… whatever with aspartame can actually trigger the vomiting because of that "funny taste" it has. So far I discovered only one "real" ginger ale, it that has a real ginger in it and it is called fever tree. I believe it is really brewed so it is fermented, it is how it is supposed to be. Or maybe it is not really fermented? I don't know for sure yet. But I already tried and failed to brew ginger bud at home as a base for ginger ale. They warned everyone online that it can be a while until I get a hand of it. They also warned people that once they try a real thing, they will not buy fakes from the store and truth be told, most of store sold soda is fake. Many brands produce soda called "Ginger Ale" but it does not have any ginger in it nor it is not brewed, so it can not be called "ale", and it should not be called "ginger" either, so can you call it a "fake"? I am surprised why nobody it taking it to court over commonly accepted name.
    Until then, I do buy real ginger ale when I am not too sick to drive to a store. If I buy it online, I have to buy either a lot and I am tempted to drink it when I am not sick so when I really need it, I may not have any left, then I know it is not a good idea to drink soda for no reason but the great taste and unwanted calories. Maybe I can persuade a local small store to hold my own brought-in bottles for me for a sick day… haha, but who knows, the people who work there are familiar with me so they should not be worried about a security thinking what is exactly in those bottles…
    Or maybe they would take a pity and accept a delivery box and keep it there and ration it to me a few bottles at a time on a "battle with nausea" day…

    ^^^Sorry guys to those who think it is an overly long comment, but is it kind of related to why people drink soda with sugar or artificial sweeteners.
    Maybe you will opt-out of it all together and switch to juice (read the labels, but most likely no Hyd.corn Syr. there. Still a healthier alternative. It is a matter of replacing a habit with another habit once you find something else you like, just find a way to persuade yourself with a good argument or two. If you would know what the impact of it was …

    Here is from Google AI generated info answer to my basic questions about impact of water deficiency from a major soda company bottling plant in Mexico:
    ***Fomento Económico de México), which is the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the country and most of Latin America, meaning that most Coca-Cola consumed in Mexico is produced within the country itself
    Mexico is a county with limited water, and when Coca-Cola became more accessible than drinking water… Everyone replaced water with Coke. In fact, poverty-stricken people were forced to add Coca-Cola to their diet- just to add calories, and because it was simply cheaper than water.
    ***Coca-Cola has said that they replenish the water used, and that their wells are deep underground and do not affect the local water supply. However, some activists say that Coca-Cola is manipulative and abusive
    ***Local activists say that the Coca-Cola plant consumes most of the community's drinking water. Some say that water flows toward the money and to companies like Coca-Cola, not to the people"
    I did some more research and learned that CocaCola owns these soda companies as well
    Sprite, Fanta, Powerade, Dasani, Mr. Pibb, Gold Peak tea, BodyArmor, and Costa Coffee.
    If you type "other brands owned by coca cola" you will find more…

  22. We hopefully will have an advocate in the U.S. that i ready to deter industry from non natural ingredients in things we consume.

  36. I know a man who buys TWELVE 1.5 litre Pepsi Max bottles every week, he mainly drinks that and milk with low fat. He refuses to listen.

  38. You all don’t know what you are talking about with stevia. Stevia is very bitter as well as sweet, it almost always is processed because it is gross otherwise.

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