Tag Archives: Aspartame

Aspartame: You Can Run But You Can’t Hide

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener favoured by the food industry because of its sweet taste and non-calorific value. This makes it a popular choice for diet drinks and other sugar-free products. However, the bad publicity surrounding the adulteration of our … Continue reading →

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Soft Drinks: Another Study, More Bad News

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Regular readers of this blog will be aware of the detrimental effects that soft drink consumption has on health (here, here, here and here). Sugar sweetened soft drinks are damaging because of the presence of fructose either in the form … Continue reading →

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Aspartame is Carcinogenic?

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Robert Barrington

The current obesity epidemic has increased the popularity of artificial sweeteners and the food manufacturers have not been slow to expand their use. In particular, the popularity of aspartame (L-α-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester) sweetened beverages has increased in recent decades. Aspartame … Continue reading →

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Artificially Sweetened Drinks

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Artificially sweetened soft drink have become popular because of concerns over the association between sugar sweetened soft drinks and obesity. In response to these concerns, manufacturers have created a range of diet drinks that contain a number of artificial sweeteners, … Continue reading →

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Why Do Low Fat Foods Taste Good?

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Robert Barrington

ow fat foods have become popular in recent decades because of the erroneous believe that dietary fat causes obesity and leads to cardiovascular disease. However, dietary fat is appealing to human tastes and also provides texture to certain foods. Removing … Continue reading →

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Alternative to Aspartame?

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Aspartame may be detrimental to health in those sensitive to its effects. The problem with aspartame is that it contains a molecule of L-phenylalanine, an essential amino acid that crosses the blood brain barrier using the large neutral amino acid … Continue reading →

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Aspartame: The Selective Assassin

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Aspartame is a man made chemical that is used extensively in the food industry as an artificial sweetener. When ingested, humans perceive the aspartame molecule to be around 200 times sweeter than table sugar (sucrose). Aspartame is useful as an … Continue reading →

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Diet Drinks: The Aspartame Fallacy

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Data suggests that the increased rates of obesity seen in Western nations mirror the increase in the consumption of sugar sweetened soft drinks, particularly those containing high fructose corn syrup. In response to criticism, the manufacturers of soft drink have … Continue reading →

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Sugar Consumption from Soft Drinks Falls in America

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Robert Barrington

The consumption of refined sugars is increasingly being associated with the development of obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and hyperglycaemia. Of the commonly consumed sugars, sucrose and high fructose corn syrup may be particularly problematic because they … Continue reading →

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Aspartame Toxicity

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Robert Barrington

Aspartame is a commonly used artificial sweetener that is a methyl ester of an L-aspartate and L-phenylalanine dipeptide (L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester). Aspartame ingestion has been shown to result in some gastrointestinal discomfort including nausea, diarrhoea and abdominal pain. However, of … Continue reading →

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