Thoughts on Sucralose or Aspartame in diet food?

If i consume too much aspartame i get migraines. Some people tolerate it better than others. I just try to avoid artificial sweeteners and my progress seems to go better.

I think it really depends on taste bud preference, but I absolutely love drinks with aspartame in them. I put packets of aspartame in my plain yogurt sometimes when I want it to be a bit sweeter as well.

Recent studies indicate that there are probably no health issues with aspartame.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2015/03March/Pages/Research-casts-doubt-on-aspartame-sensitivity.aspx

http://www.hcplive.com/news/Aspartame-Blinded-Study-Demonstrates-Safety-Again

I don't like the aftertaste and get headaches from both so I avoid them.

It doesn't make me hungrier but it does have an after taste.

I don't eat "diet food"...I just eat food. I don't ingest artificial sweeteners, I prefer the real deal. I think artificial sweeteners make food taste like *kitten*.

As a diabetic type 2 in remission, I use artificial sweeteners almost exclusively. I can't tell the difference any more. Artificial sweeteners do not make me hungry. Intensive cardio makes me hungry.

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/athome/aspartame

"In the United States, artificial sweeteners such as aspartame are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products must be tested for safety and approved by the FDA before they can be used. The FDA also sets an acceptable daily intake (ADI) for each sweetener, which is the maximum amount considered safe to consume each day during a person's lifetime. The ADI is set to be about 100 times less than the smallest amount that might cause health concerns, based on studies done in lab animals.

The FDA has set the ADI for aspartame at 50 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) of body weight. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which regulates food additives in the European Union, recommends a slightly lower ADI for aspartame, at 40 mg/kg.

To put the ADI for aspartame in perspective, this would be 3,750 milligrams per day for a typical adult weighing 75 kilograms (about 165 pounds), far more than most adults take in daily. A 12 ounce can of diet soda usually contains about 192 milligrams of aspartame and a packet of the tabletop sweetener contains about 35mg. An adult weighing 165 pounds would have to drink more than 19 cans of diet soda a day or consume more than 107 packets to go over the recommended level."

Unless you have phenylketonuria (PKU), a genetic disorder which prevents you from breaking down a component of aspartame that can lead to issues (rare, and you would be tested for it), there is no health risk associated with aspartame as an artificial sweetener.

If you're guzzling down 19+ cans of soda a day or 107+ packets of sugar a day, you're going to have a lot of other health problems before you have to worry about the sweetener specifically, haha.

If you're just asking taste/preference wise, I don't like diet soda...but I also don't really like regular soda that much haha so hard to tell, and I don't put sugar in my coffee.

I think both sweeteners taste awful.

Personally, if I want sugar free, I don't try for sweet. If I want sweet, I use sugar, maple syrup, or honey.

If you don't like sucralose (aka Splenda), do be careful and read labels. They sneak that stuff into all kinds of foods without warning. Yuck. I got caught out by the Yoplait light as well...seems pointless to add the splenda when there are other 100 cal yogurts that don't resort to artificial sweeteners.

I don't eat "diet" foods or drink "diet" drinks. On the other hand I don't consume a lot of sugar either and don't drink soda. My drinks are black coffee, water, and Earl Grey tea.

Edit to fix spelling.

Sugar substitutes in ANYTHING is just plain gross (unless by 'substitute' they mean something like corn syrup, maple, etc). It's gross and unnecessary and keeps showing up in things that aren't touted as 'diet' nor NEED to be any sweeter than they already are.

If a drink or dessert is labeled as 'diet' then I expect it and know to avoid it. But why the F does my hot chocolate have freaking sucralose in it. I don't care it's the last ingredient. I spit it out without even knowing it was there, because it was *nasty*. Ugh. I could rant all day about it. Just NO.

_John_ wrote: »

spoonyspork wrote: »

Sugar substitutes in ANYTHING is just plain gross (unless by 'substitute' they mean something like corn syrup, maple, etc). It's gross and unnecessary and keeps showing up in things that aren't touted as 'diet' nor NEED to be any sweeter than they already are.

If a drink or dessert is labeled as 'diet' then I expect it and know to avoid it. But why the F does my hot chocolate have freaking sucralose in it. I don't care it's the last ingredient. I spit it out without even knowing it was there, because it was *nasty*. Ugh. I could rant all day about it. Just NO.

I have a different opinion than you do on this subject...

What, you think it's good that it gets put in products without warning?

I mean, if you like it, fine. But many of us can fully taste the bitterness of artificial sweeteners (most of them aren't even discernibly sweet to me, all I can taste is BITTER.) and wouldn't buy a product if we knew it was in there.

TR0berts wrote: »

EWJLang wrote: »

_John_ wrote: »

spoonyspork wrote: »

Sugar substitutes in ANYTHING is just plain gross (unless by 'substitute' they mean something like corn syrup, maple, etc). It's gross and unnecessary and keeps showing up in things that aren't touted as 'diet' nor NEED to be any sweeter than they already are.

If a drink or dessert is labeled as 'diet' then I expect it and know to avoid it. But why the F does my hot chocolate have freaking sucralose in it. I don't care it's the last ingredient. I spit it out without even knowing it was there, because it was *nasty*. Ugh. I could rant all day about it. Just NO.

I have a different opinion than you do on this subject...

What, you think it's good that it gets put in products without warning?

I mean, if you like it, fine. But many of us can fully taste the bitterness of artificial sweeteners (most of them aren't even discernibly sweet to me, all I can taste is BITTER.) and wouldn't buy a product if we knew it was in there.

Without warning? It's on the label.

Often only in tiny print on the ingredient list. They used to put the big logo of Splenda or Nutrasweet on the label, not as a requirement, I think it was more of a boast that they had the "new" sweetener in it. (And, in the case of Nutrasweet, it was a reassurance that it wasn't saccharine, which was the only alternative at the time) And, in food items not labeled "diet?" people aren't likely to pick up the container, pull out their readers (shut up, I'm old) and scan the small print for sucralose. As the PP said, if you buy regular, full calorie hot cocoa mix? Why would you double check for Splenda?

EWJLang wrote: »

TR0berts wrote: »

EWJLang wrote: »

_John_ wrote: »

spoonyspork wrote: »

Sugar substitutes in ANYTHING is just plain gross (unless by 'substitute' they mean something like corn syrup, maple, etc). It's gross and unnecessary and keeps showing up in things that aren't touted as 'diet' nor NEED to be any sweeter than they already are.

If a drink or dessert is labeled as 'diet' then I expect it and know to avoid it. But why the F does my hot chocolate have freaking sucralose in it. I don't care it's the last ingredient. I spit it out without even knowing it was there, because it was *nasty*. Ugh. I could rant all day about it. Just NO.

I have a different opinion than you do on this subject...

What, you think it's good that it gets put in products without warning?

I mean, if you like it, fine. But many of us can fully taste the bitterness of artificial sweeteners (most of them aren't even discernibly sweet to me, all I can taste is BITTER.) and wouldn't buy a product if we knew it was in there.

Without warning? It's on the label.

Often only in tiny print on the ingredient list. They used to put the big logo of Splenda or Nutrasweet on the label, not as a requirement, I think it was more of a boast that they had the "new" sweetener in it. (And, in the case of Nutrasweet, it was a reassurance that it wasn't saccharine, which was the only alternative at the time) And, in food items not labeled "diet?" people aren't likely to pick up the container, pull out their readers (shut up, I'm old) and scan the small print for sucralose. As the PP said, if you buy regular, full calorie hot cocoa mix? Why would you double check for Splenda?

This, all of this! I compared the label to the last box I had (which was still on top of the trash can). The previous batch did NOT have Splenda, this one did. I had checked MANY MANY times before: why would I check now? Went to the grocery store and *every single brand* had started doing it, none of them with any indication on the box. The only one that didn't was the generic store brand.

Vitamin water did it too. They HAVE a 'zero' flavor. Whhhhy did they feel the need to put it in the regular stuff, without warning?

I loathe the taste of artificial sweeteners. And I also loathe stevia! Blech!!!

Stonyfield Farms Fat Free French Vanilla Yogurt is delicious and while not as low cal as Yoplait, it is sweetened with sugar. I've gotten away from it though and reaching for Greek yogurts because of the higher protein amount, but I absolutely avoid yogurt and most other "diet" foods that have sweeteners other than ordinary old sugar.