Aspartame is an artificial sweetener commonly found in products like chewing gum, soft drinks and tabletop sweeteners, but ...

The artificial sweetener aspartame can be found in everything from chewing gum to fizzy drinks and tabletop sweeteners.

Aspartame is still permitted in many countries, but more recent research suggests that the substance may have more ...

Just last month, the World Health Organization and the International Agency for Research of Cancer announced that they’d both be researching the link between aspartame and cancer, as reported by the ...

In the first long-term and real-world reflective study of its kind, scientists have uncovered new detrimental health impacts of the artificial sweetener aspartame that echoes those found in shorter ...

MINNEAPOLIS – It's one of the world's most popular low-calorie sweeteners. But now, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared aspartame a "possible" carcinogen. Most commonly, it's found in diet ...

The WHO has declared aspartame, a food additive used frequently in diet soda and other low-calorie beverages, "possibly" carcinogenic to humans, but did not make any changes to its recommendations for ...

New guidance reaffirms limits on daily consumption. A World Health Organization expert group that evaluates the safety of food additives for consumption by consumers has reaffirmed that the artificial ...

Thinking you'll make up for your Thanksgiving feast in the coming days by filling up on a lot of diet soda? A new study out of Massachusetts General Hospital suggests you may want to think again, ...

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®. The same amount ...

The realms of science and technology include many instances of "accidental discoveries," cases in which inventors sought to develop one thing, but ended up creating something quite different. Wilson ...