Items Tagged with 'Aspartame'

With carbonated soft drinks facing mounting negative health perceptions from Americans, craft and natural options are showing promise among the most active soft drink consumers.

Diet Pepsi, without aspartame, will hit U.S. shelves this week. MarketResearch.com offers users access to Packaged Facts' report, Sugar, Sugar Substitute, and Sweetener Trends in the U.S., 4th Edition. The report examines how consumers' awareness of possible ill effects of sugar affects their consumption habits.

As heat indexes spike across the country, Pepsi unveiled a new refreshing option for cola fans to enjoy during the hot summer months – aspartame-free Diet Pepsi. Now, consumers can begin to purchase aspartame-free Diet Pepsi with the crisp taste fans have come to expect from Pepsi.

A large, prospective study of more than 100,000 older men and women has concluded that moderate aspartame consumption is not associated with an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).

Advantame is 20,000 times sweeter, gram per gram, than table sugar.

After conducting a major review of evidence, the agency said it has ruled out any “potential risk of aspartame causing damage to genes and inducing cancer.”

Diet Pepsi is quietly changing its sweetener ahead of a major rebranding of the soft drink set for next month.

A new study suggests that saccharin and aspartame cause a greater weight gain than sugar, even with the same intake of calories.

A Harvard-affiliated hospital is backing away from its decision earlier this week to promote a paper linking the artificial sweetener aspartame and cancer, now saying the evidence was "weak."