Aspartame is the artificial sweetener that people love to hate. It's also one of the most common alternatives to sugar, found in over 6,000 products and sold as NutraSweet® and Equal®.

A dietitian lends her expertise. Aspartame is an artificial, nonnutritive sweetener used worldwide as a food additive in more ...

Aspartame, a popular artificial sweetener found in diet sodas, chewing gum, yogurt and other food products, is a “possible carcinogen” but it remains safe to consume at the existing daily ...

A World Health Organization agency has classified aspartame, an artificial sweetener widely used in diet drinks and low-calorie foods, as possibly carcinogenic to humans. Getty Images How much ...

Aspartame already is on the hot seat in Europe; sucralose, saccharin, ace-K and sugar alcohols also have skeletons in their ...

Increased hypothalamic blood flow suggests an increase in hunger signals in the brain. The study findings indicate that ...

Aspartame doesn’t have a strong aftertaste. However, it is broken down at very high temperatures and starts to lose its sweetness, so it is not ideal in dishes that require high-temperature cooking.

To our knowledge, aspartame-associated migraines related to clinically relevant positive reactions to formaldehyde on patch testing have not previously been reported. In 2003, Hill and Belsito ...

The zero-sugar trend has unleashed a wave of new products, with instant noodles even entering the healthy chat.