Sucralose, for example, adds no calories (a non-nutritive sweetener) while aspartame contains more than 2% of the calories seen in an equal amount of table sugar (it's the only nutritive sweetener).

But cancer risks aside, the jury is still very much out on whether sugar substitutes are any better for your body than regular ... including aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet), sucralose (Splenda ...

However, she sympathizes with the dieter's lament that counting calories requires more conscious effort than consuming low-calorie foods. Swithers adds that based on the lab's hypothesis, other ...

Aspartame: Health Concern Or Hype? The consumption of Aspartame and other artificial sweeteners pose no health threats to humans ... The simplistic and misguided notion that natural is always better ...

Aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar, so it gives the taste without ... Last year a study of 105,000 people compared people who consumed no sweeteners with those who consumed large amounts.

Aspartame contains 4 calories per gram, but it is up to 200 times sweeter than sugar and so very small amounts are needed, which means it contributes a negligible number of calories to the diet.

Most people consume less than ... and sweeteners - and for companies to produce foods that are less sweet, but still tasty. One of the big outstanding research questions is how might aspartame ...

This is far more than most people would consume in a day, because cans of diet soda usually contain 200 mg of aspartame. So, a 70 kg adult could drink up to 14 cans of Diet Coke a day and not ...

It feels like destiny: she is desperate to buy it now. Sadly, it’s even more expensive than before and, in any case, friends are asking if it might in fact be her old life she is longing for?