If you want to make a claim against aspartame, go for the cancer claim. It’s proven and accepted by the WHO, and many people consume beyond the threshold accepted to cause cancer (something like a few cans of soft drink per day IIRC)
What? Aspartame is classified as a possible carcinogen, but mostly to encourage further research. There’s an old rat study that claimed to show an increase in variois cancers, but it had a weirdly cancer-free control group and used levels far in excess of “a few cans per day”. AFAIK, no human studies have ever shown any significant correlation. It definitely hasn’t been “proven and accepted by the WHO”.
Possibly carcinogenic with an ADI of zero to 40 mg/kg per day with three high quality (although limited, because there are not yet enough studies to definitively prove beyond chance) evidence for liver cancer in humans
For example, with a can of diet soft drink containing 200 or 300 mg of aspartame, an adult weighing 70kg would need to consume more than 9–14 cans per day to exceed the acceptable daily intake, assuming no other intake from other food sources.
9-14 cans of soda per day seems pretty hard to hit, even intentionally.
Sory, I wasn’t aware comments in a shitpost community were graded for factual accuracy. I will be sure to be better in the future to appease our teminally online overlords 🙏
If you want to make a claim against aspartame, go for the cancer claim. It’s proven and accepted by the WHO, and many people consume beyond the threshold accepted to cause cancer (something like a few cans of soft drink per day IIRC)
What? Aspartame is classified as a possible carcinogen, but mostly to encourage further research. There’s an old rat study that claimed to show an increase in variois cancers, but it had a weirdly cancer-free control group and used levels far in excess of “a few cans per day”. AFAIK, no human studies have ever shown any significant correlation. It definitely hasn’t been “proven and accepted by the WHO”.
https://www.who.int/news/item/14-07-2023-aspartame-hazard-and-risk-assessment-results-released
Possibly carcinogenic with an ADI of zero to 40 mg/kg per day with three high quality (although limited, because there are not yet enough studies to definitively prove beyond chance) evidence for liver cancer in humans
9-14 cans of soda per day seems pretty hard to hit, even intentionally.
Sory, I wasn’t aware comments in a shitpost community were graded for factual accuracy. I will be sure to be better in the future to appease our teminally online overlords 🙏