Power to the drinkers.....

[Workingman]

.... who have forced Pepsi to act..... Or maybe not.

Pepsi USA (but not the UK) is going to stop using the artificial sweetener, aspartame, in its Diet Pepsi and other diet drinks. Hoorah! However, it is going to replace it with acesulfame - K, another suspect artificial sweetener. Booo! It will not be removing sucralose, yet another artificial sweetener and phenylalanine (produced from genetically modified E-coli) will still have traces present.

I am so glad that I do not like Cola or sweet fizzy pop.

[pederito1]

I, once inadvertently tried a G&T with aspartame in it. Had to spit it out.

[cruiser2]

Saw a programme on TV this morning about food labelling.
If packaging says xxxxx flavour the product does not have to have any of that ingredient in it.
But if it says xxxx flovoured it does have to have some of the product. It showed several examples.
Shows what food manufacures and supoermarkets are doing.

[Kaz]

I don't buy into the demonization of aspartame - if you feed huge amounts of anything to rats it will give them cancer

[manxie]

I agree with Liz

I have never drunk tea or coffee all my life. When young it was corporation pop(tap water) and later fizzy pop or alchohol when of age, recently mainly fizzy pop or cordials and at 67 years of age it has done me no harm.

There are too many do gooders about saying what we can do or eat, look at the hullabaloo over low fats etc and dairy is bad for you, only to find recently more research has told us what we and our parents and grandparents knew good plain honest foods without additives and chemicals are much better for us than todays modified foods and ready meals etc.

Statistics can be manipulated to prove almost anything that the supplier wants us to buy, be it good for us or bad.

I mostly eat my own home cooked food made with local produce as far as possible, I can mange quite well thankyou without ready meals weeks old to microwave or oven heat and serve stuff that most of us have little idea of the contents.

my rant is over lol

Manxie xx

[Suff]

I don't buy into the demonization of aspartame - if you feed huge amounts of anything to rats it will give them cancer

Remember the Yoghurt gives you cancer thing? Must have been a slow news week because when you look at it you need to eat some ridiculous number of yoghurts every single day and by the time you are 70 or so it will have some % increase in your likelihood of getting cancer.

For the amount I drink, sugar in the non diet stuff is more likely to kill me than aspartamine in the diet stuff.... That, to me, is all that matters at the moment.

Granted I could just drink water. But diet is partially about beating the addiction to food and partly about boredom with what you are eating or drinking... To that end I think diet drinks are valuable. But not with alcohol, tastes revolting...

[Kaz]

Agreed! Diet coke has saved me from breaking my diet for a pud at many a meal out!