article_snippet.sent: the sweetener aspartame due to customer fears over its safety has been linked to a range of health problems, although research has shown the sweetener aspartame due to customer fears over its safety to be safe.
article_snippet.sent: This is despite the Food and Drug Administration stating that more than 100 studies support aspartame's safety.
article_snippet.sent: Executives at Coke and Pepsi blame the declines on perceptions that aspartame, first sold under the brand name Nutrasweet, is not safe.
article_snippet.sent: Despite aspartame's poor reputation, aspartame has been ruled a safe food ingredient by food watchdogs in Britain, the EU, the USA and around the world.
article_snippet.sent: Aspartame has established Aspartame as an important component in many low-calorie, sugar-free foods and beverages and is primarily responsible for the growth over the last two decades in the sugar-free market.
article_snippet.sent: Aspartame is currently consumed by over 200 million people around the world and is found in more than 6,000 products.
article_snippet.sent: Aspartame is a nutritive sweetener made by joining two amino acids (protein components) -- L-phenylalanine and L-aspartic acid, with a third component called a methyl ester group.
article_snippet.sent: Very little is needed for a sweet taste, making aspartame virtually non-caloric.
article_snippet.sent: Source: http://www.aspartame.org/ .
article_snippet.sent: In December 2013, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published an opinion on aspartame following a full risk assessment and concluded aspartame was ‘safe for human consumption at current levels of exposure'.
article_snippet.sent: This was supported by Britain’s Committee on Toxicity which said a nutritive sweetener made by joining two amino acids (protein components) -- L-phenylalanine and L-aspartic acid, with a third component called a methyl ester group was safe and there was no need for action, such as taking a nutritive sweetener made by joining two amino acids (protein components) -- L-phenylalanine and L-aspartic acid, with a third component called a methyl ester group off the shelves, to protect public health.
article_snippet.sent: Scientist there have published research suggesting aspartame caused several types of cancer in rats at doses very close to the current acceptable daily intake for humans.
highlights_snippet.sent: Aspartame has been linked to a range of health problems .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But more than 100 studies have deemed Aspartame  to be safe, says the FDA .
  