The fear of artificial sweeteners

Aspartame is synonymous with artificial sweeteners.
Dangers have come to be recognized overseas.
Aspartame, which was approved as a food additive in 1983, is now used in a variety of foodstuffs, and it can be said that it is extremely difficult to completely eliminate aspartame.
If you continue to take aspartame, you actually tend to gain weight.
Other possibilities include brain tumors, seizures, and intellectual disability.

Sucrose is a relatively new artificial sweetener approved in Japan in 1999, and its sweetness is about 600 times that of sucrose (the main component of sugar), which is an amazing sweetness (aspartame). Is about 200 times that of sucrose).
Although it is not sold directly in stores, it is used in many zero-calorie and diet-spoken soft drinks, ice cream, gum, and throat lozenges.
It also has a toxicity close to that of aspartame.

Acetyl femme is another problem, but the most powerful sweetener is Advantame, which is already on the market in the United States.
In Japan, Ajinomoto has obtained food additive approval from the European Commission and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Advantame, and also obtained food additive approval from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on June 18, 2014 in Japan. ..
Advantame is an amino acid-based high-sweetness sweetener that has a sweetness of 20,000 to 40,000 times that of sugar.

Ajinomoto also stated on its website that it will be possible to use it in a wide range of foods such as tabletop sweets, baked goods, soft drinks, jams, gums, etc. with the acquisition of food additive approval by the European Commission and FDA. I am.
And, of course, the dangers of this sweetener have not been pointed out.
The history of sweeteners is not much different from the history of stimulants.
And personally speaking, monosodium glutamate made by Ajinomoto is also a relative of stimulants.

However, few know the history of stimulants, so we don't know that this is a relative.
Originally, whether it is a large Japanese company or a multinational company, we do not think about people's health at all, so we can just leave it to safety.
The same is true for artificial sweeteners and other products, but since the results of proper research are not revealed, if they claim that they are safe based on scientific grounds, they will be exhausted from small fish.

By the way, neotame is the second most sweet artificial sweetener after Advantame.
There is also a reason why the names of these artificial sweeteners are a combination of the words tame, neo (meaning new, etc.) and advan (meaning evolved, etc.).
The name aspartame has the same structure, but the meaning of tame is tame, submissive, and lethargic.

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