The European Food Safety recently confirmed that it is safe to consume the sweetener aspartame. Two new studies of this organization have shown that maintaining an adequate amount in the body, without excess (about 40 mg per kilo of your body weight), aspartame does not cause cancer or other health complications.
The sweetener aspartame is consumed by many people in the world, as it is included in most diet soda in tabletop sweeteners, cakes, pastries, gum … It is odorless and comes in powder, and also many sweet flavors intensify own food, so many people have become their preferred choice to replace sugar. Nor cause caries when consumed.
However, this product fell into disrepute and the controversy a few years ago, when several scientific reports appeared suggesting that aspartame was harmful to health. In 2006, the Italian scientist Morando Soffritti revived the controversy over this sweetener, is an experiment conducted at the University of Bologna, Italy. For 8 years, presented Soffritti aspartame on 1800 rats. The experiment concluded that aspartame caused cancer effects in rodents.
The sweetener aspartame, above suspicion
Since then, the big brands use aspartame products, such as the European Food Safety, have sought to show that this sweetener is harmless to our body, provided it is consumed responsibly and without excess. It seems that finally they have succeeded, finding no evidence of damage to health by Aspartame.
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