Despite Aspartame Warning, Beverage Companies Likely to Stick With It A health agency warned the artificial sweetener may be a carcinogen, but others say that risk is overblown and consumers flock to the taste.
Aspartame and Cancer: What to Know About the WHO’s Advice Experts say there’s no need to panic about your diet soda habit.
Breaking Up With Diet Soda? Here Are 11 Aspartame-Free Drink Alternatives. If the World Health Organization’s warning about the artificial sweetener has you worried, try these other refreshers.
Aspartame is Possibly Linked to Cancer in Humans, the WHO Says The F.D.A. and the powerful beverage industry protested the new findings, and a second W.H.O. group stood by its standard that the sweetener is generally safe.