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Phenylalanine and Aspartame

Jaymie
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Is there a difference? I hear alot about aspartame.. but is phenylalanine just as bad??
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I looked it up on Wikipedia, Phenylalanine is a by-product of Aspartame when the body breaks it down. There is a lot of scientific stuff on the page, but if you read down, you will find out about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylalanine0 -
The way I understand it, they are just chemicals, not food, hence the fact that are calorie free. We shouldn't be eating chemicals.0
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