Public Service Announcement: Aspartame is... - Page 2

Flounder · 01-02-2006, 02:02 PM

Well also, from the little I read of "Aspartame is Evil" link, it seems like the people who did have problems it stemmed more from "allergic reactions" then that fact that aspartame is poison. Virtually any substance has people that are allergic to it. I think there are even a few cases of people allergic to water of all things. Glad to know I don't have to wig out over my Diet Coke now.

Diet Coke for the win!!!

Wolverine · 01-02-2006, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by King Kabuki

SAFE!! Oh yes. Safe AND effective.

HOWEVER...if you read the WHOLE article it tells you that you'd have to drink 600...let me spell that out for you. S-I-X H-U-N-D-R-E-D cans of diet soda to get as much of either substance as is contained in a single ORANGE.

That's right. Oranges will kill you faster than aspartame will. DAMN! Never trust citrus I tell you.

DIET SODA FOR ALL!!

Yes but fruits that contain methanol will also always contain ethanol and pectin which prevents methanol from turning into formaldehyde (and formic acid in some cases).

I rather use Stevia instead of aspartame.

Wolverine
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**King Kabuki** · 01-02-2006, 10:18 PM

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Yes but fruits that contain methanol will also always contain ethanol and pectin which prevents methanol from turning into formaldehyde (and formic acid in some cases).

I rather use Stevia instead of aspartame.

Good point on the fruits, but still, 600 cans of diet coke = 1 orange. And that's 600 at a time, which need to be multiplied by the amount of methanol to be toxic. You'd die of a million other things drinking 600 cans of diet coke at a time before the aspartame toxicity sets in.

I'd rather use none of them. I hate the idea of sweeteners in-general because I don't understand why people can't just taste the way food tastes. But that's just my own personal Nazi view.

**Urban** · 01-02-2006, 11:29 PM

aspartame still tastes like asspartame to me... HAHAH! GET IT! I put an extra s in there to make it say ASS! so what I was saying is it tastes like ass! HAHAHAHAH I am so fucking clever it should be illegal!

**King Kabuki** · 01-03-2006, 12:15 AM

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aspartame still tastes like asspartame to me... HAHAH! GET IT! I put an extra s in there to make it say ASS! so what I was saying is it tastes like ass! HAHAHAHAH I am so fucking clever it should be illegal!

*suspects Urban has an excess of formaldehyde in the brain from one-too-many Oranges*

Ted-P · 01-03-2006, 06:23 AM

I eat an ungodly amount of oranges and clementines.

I'm scared as fuck right now.

supersudo · 01-03-2006, 10:28 AM

so basically what you're saying is that oranges have artificial sweeteners?

rofl

**King Kabuki** · 01-03-2006, 11:46 AM

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so basically what you're saying is that oranges have artificial sweeteners?

lol No. Oranges have methanol, wood-alcohol. Which makes sense seeing as it grows in trees and what have you.

But man I'm just entirely dis-illusioned about society's general lack of sense nowadays. You don't know how many times a day I hear a parent tell a child:

"Honey you don't need that. Protein is no good for you. I'll buy you a Snicker bar on the way home."

ARGH.

farmboy · 01-03-2006, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban

aspartame still tastes like asspartame to me... HAHAH! GET IT! I put an extra s in there to make it say ASS! so what I was saying is it tastes like ass! HAHAHAHAH I am so fucking clever it should be illegal!

Uh...I don't get it.

You know, it's funny, I had an aunt that wouldn't let my cousins drink some of the Diet Shasta (yeah, it was a long time ago) that we had at our house because she was afraid it would give them cancer.

As far as the oranges go, I don't know if I buy that! I mean, I have some right here in my kitch... wait, where are they? What, no, NOOOO!!! Please, not in the EYE!! AAAHHHHHH!!!!!

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Wolverine · 01-03-2006, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by farmboy

Uh...I don't get it.

As far as the oranges go, I don't know if I buy that! I mean, I have some right here in my kitch... wait, where are they? What, no, NOOOO!!! Please, not in the EYE!! AAAHHHHHH!!!!!

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As I already stated:

"... fruits that contain methanol will also always contain ethanol and pectin which prevents methanol from turning into formaldehyde (and formic acid in some cases). "

So you got nothing to worry about with Oranges, or any fruit that has methanol in it. KK was just trying to make a point.

Wolverine
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