aspartame

[PetersCreek]

I'm one of those folks who does not tolerate Aspartame well. The gastrointestinal distress it causes may well place me in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

So, my vote is "deadly"

 

[a_unique_person]

I dislike its taste monstrously. A rumor around is that there's a gene that determines if you can tell the differnece between sugar and aspartame. That may be BS though.

http://www.321recipes.com/aspartame.html "aspartame has been proven to increase appetite"

http://www.aspartame.org/aspartame_faq9.html "Based on the overwhelming scientific evidence from numerous scientific studies, aspartame does not increase hunger, appetite, or food intake"

And depending on who you believe, it may or may not increase your appetite.

I just keep on doing what I usually do then, and believe what I want to believe.

 

[Rolfe]

I don't know if it's deadly, but it leaves a ****ed-up aftertaste in my mouth and hence is to be avoided at all cost.

Splenda is even more horrific.

Seconded. Pity. I could use to lose a little weight.

Like about 2 stone....

Rolfe.

 

[soylent]

Unless you've got phenylketonuria or an allergy to aspartame I don't believe there's much cause for concern.

 

[TheAnachronism]

Today, while eating lunch at a restaurant, I saw five sparrows on an outside table, going for little white grains I first thought were salt. But then one of them got a little Equal packet in its beak, pecked a hole in it and began shaking the contents out onto the tabke top. Equal is Aspertame.
As soon as they'd clean up most of the grains, one or another of the birds would shake the packet again. It was the best show of the day!

It's actually somewhat depressing to think those birds were having a field day believing they were getting a feast, when in all actuality they were expending all that energy for maybe .25 calories.

Of course, I'm sure if they're regular city birds they're not malnourished in the least.

 

[Vic Vega]

I'm one of those folks who does not tolerate Aspartame well. The gastrointestinal distress it causes may well place me in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

So, my vote is "deadly"

That's your opinion, stinky!