Why does a petition require the ban on controversial sweetener? – release
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Sodas, chewing gums, energy drinks, protein yogurts, medicines … His name has gradually slipped into the composition of more than 6,000 products, to the point of becoming the most used sweetener in the world, in front of aceulfame K and sugarose. Aspartame E951, whose sweetening power is sometimes 200 times that of sucrose, real sugar, has been, since Tuesday, February 4, in the viewfinder of the NGO Foodwatch, of the Ligue against Cancer and The French Application of Nutrition Yuka for its harmfulness. The objective of their petition, which identified more than 30,000 signatures in the evening: prohibiting aspartame in the composition of food and drinks at European level.
Two reasons. First, its dangerousness. Between 2022 and 2023, a team of French researchers published, suddenly, three studies which demonstrate the role of sweeteners in the development of cancers, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. “Now we focus on the potential consequences on the microbio