What is NutraSweet used for?
What is NutraSweet used for?
NutraSweet® is the NutraSweet Company’s brand name for the low-calorie artificial sweetener aspartame. It is used to sweeten a variety of foods and beverages and is about 200 times sweeter than sugar. Since aspartame is intensely sweet, very little is required to sweeten foods and beverages.
How bad is NutraSweet for you?
Dozens of studies have linked aspartame — the world’s most widely used artificial sweetener — to serious health problems, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, seizures, stroke and dementia, as well as negative effects such as intestinal dysbiosis, mood disorders, headaches and migraines.
Why is aspartame banned?
Food standards agencies rule out aspartame bans as scientists warn of ‘adverse effect’ on consumers. Since 1977, scientists have warned of the risks of brain lesions, cancer and neurological disorders from consuming aspartame, which is found in thousands of products around the world including diet soft drinks.
Is Splenda and NutraSweet the same thing?
Sucralose is widely sold under the brand name Splenda, while aspartame is typically found as NutraSweet or Equal. While they’re both high-intensity sweeteners, they differ in terms of their production methods and sweetness.
What’s worse sucralose or aspartame?
Aspartame is made from two amino acids, while sucralose is a modified form of sugar with added chlorine. “Sucralose is almost certainly safer than aspartame,” says Michael F. Jacobson, executive director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
When was NutraSweet Company bought by Monsanto?
In 1985 Searle was bought by Monsanto, which combined the NutraSweet and Equal operations into the NutraSweet Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Monsanto. NutraSweet sales amounted to over $700 million in 1985.
What did the NutraSweet Company do for a living?
Aware that it was essentially a one-product company, NutraSweet was pouring research dollars into developing new sweeteners and other food products. In the meantime, it received approval from the FDA to use NutraSweet in juice drinks, breath mints, tea beverages, and frozen novelties.
When did NutraSweet buy the rights to Simplesse?
In 1985, NutraSweet had bought the rights from John Labatt Ltd., a Canadian beer and food concern, and spent another two years perfecting the product. Simplesse was introduced at a press conference at which the company asserted Simplesse did not need FDA approval since it was made from natural ingredients.
When did NutraSweet patents expire in Europe?
According to New York Times contributor Eben Shapiro, when NutraSweet’s European patents expired in 1987, the firm took strong competitive measures, cutting prices by over 60 percent, down to $27 a pound. As a result it continued to hold onto most of its market share, though profits in Europe tumbled.
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