Until next July 14, the official position of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the aspartame. At the moment its possible consideration as carcinogenic It has already sown doubts about its use and the products that may include it.
It will then be in two weeks when the results will be published in the specialized magazine The Lancet Oncology and the official website of the WHO.
Among the population it is popular for its use as a sweetener popular artificial found in the Coca-Cola Lightlos chewing gumshe yoghurt and other food products.
How do you pick up the EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) on their website is an intense, low-calorie sweetener. It’s a white, odorless powderabout 200 times sweeter than sugar. Was discovered in 1965 by American chemist James Schlatter.
The additive aspartame, used as a sweetener, is a exogenous source of L-aspartic acidsince it is metabolized into aspartic acid, phenylalanine and amounts of methanol, as pointed out by the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (Aesan) in a publication.