K-State food scientist: Artificial sweeteners are safe — within reason

  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s level of use guidelines must be followed by manufacturers that include aspartame or other artificial sweeteners in their foods.
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s level of use guidelines must be followed by manufacturers that include aspartame or other artificial sweeteners in their foods.
    Artificial sweeteners— including aspartame, sucralose and others— likely are getting a bad rap.Kansas State University food scientist Karen Blakeslee notes that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lists aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” though that product has never been linked to cancer.Plus, Blakeslee notes, the level of aspartame that must be consumed to...

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