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Aspartame safe!!!
posted by m.thompson on 27 Sept 2004 at 1:48 pmSeveral independent studies have shown aspartame to be far from safe. There are 3 building blocks to aspartame, 10% of which is methanol.
Free methanol is created from aspartame when it is heated to above 86f (30c) If you heat products containing apartame, methanol breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde in the body.
Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin -on that basis apartame isn't safe.
Martindales Pharmacopoeia tells you that aspartame 'is converted by hydrolysis into 3 products in the gastro-intestinal tract, aspartic acid, methanol (a poison) and phenylalanine, a chemical known to cause severe mental retardation known as phenylketonuria'.
Read the news article that this opinion was posted about:
Aspartame, much ado about nothing?
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| Does aspartame cause autism? |
| posted by Charlene port on 06 July 2005 at 5:09 am |
| Does drinking lots of aspartame during pregnancy cause some autism? |
| Aspartame |
| posted by Lori on 20 Feb 2006 at 3:59 pm |
| You say that when aspartame is HEATED it releases free methanol, etc. Can you tell me which products that contain aspartame you WOULD HEAT up to above 86f? |
| Heat Up Aspartame ... |
| posted by Kev on 21 Apr 2006 at 9:14 pm |
| One example I can think of right off the bat that you would heat up is sugar free maple flavored syrup. I purchased a bottle recently. Were making pancakes for me and my daughter, noticed it contained aspartame after I opened it. Threw it away. No question. |
| RE: Aspartame |
| posted by Liz on 30 Apr 2006 at 1:08 am |
| Anything you eat with aspartame once injested heats up above 86F. It's called your internal body temperature doing it. |
| Actually Phenylalanine Dosen't Cause Mental Retardation |
| posted by Brendan on 24 Mar 2007 at 2:59 pm |
| phenylalanine does not cause mental retardation. It only causes it if people who have a rare genetic disease called Phenylketonuria consume too much Phenylalanine. |
| Idiot |
| posted by Kaden K on 22 Nov 2007 at 6:13 pm |
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That fool said phenylalanine is a cause of a "severe mental retardation known as phenylketonuria".
Phenylkentonuria is a genetic birth defect present in people who inherit the faulty gene from BOTH parents, ie, a homozygous defect. People born with PKU can't metabolise the essential amino acid L-phenylalanine, and thus it accumulates and damages the body. Ordinary people's bodies utilise phenylalanine in the same way from aspartame as other protein sources. 35g of bread contains an average of 1600mg of phenylalanine and 800mg of aspartic acid, the major components of the methyl ester peptide-bonded 'Aspartame'. A 375ml diet coke contains 180mg of aspartame, which by weight converts to 18mg of methanol, 90mg phenylalanine, and 72mg aspartic acid, FAR less than that found in a mere 35g of ordinary WHITE BREAD. The amount of methanol that is toxic to humans begins at 100-200mg of methanol per kg of bodyweight, which for a 80kg person would up to 160000mg of methanol, and THOUSANDS of cans of diet coke AT ONE SITTING. The amounts of formaldehyde created within the body have been shown also to be well below the dangerous level, and do not accumulate. This has been show by a massive amount of studies, as aspartame is the most tested chemical in FDA history. |
| True Heat Of Decomposition For Aspartame |
| posted by Kaden K on 22 Nov 2007 at 6:15 pm |
| Aspartame begins to decompose at 200 degrees CELSIUS. |
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