Many drinks in Ji'nan contain "controversial carcinogens", including Coca-Cola.
source: Shun Net - the Ji'nan times
many foods are sugar free but sweet, because a food additive called aspartame is added. Recently, PepsiCo announced that it would abandon aspartame in the US market because it was widely rumored to be carcinogenic. In April 30th, reporters visited the Ji'nan market and found that many beverages including Coca-Cola included this "controversial carcinogen".
Pepsi Cola recently announced that, in order to comply with consumer demand, its diet soda series will start from August this year, no longer using the disputed sweetener, aspartame, to be replaced by a mixture of three sucralose and potassium sulfamate. At the same time, this adjustment applies only to the US market, and China has no similar plans with other parts of the world. A lot of news, a lot of controversy, the health of Chinese people is not important?
in April 30th, a reporter visited a number of large supermarkets in Ji'nan, many Pepsi Cola products are sold, not only part of its products contain aspartame, Coca-Cola also contains the substance, such as a zero coke The ingredients list is sugar free and aspartame. There is also known as gable, which can replace beer, and it is also shown in the ingredient list. In addition, children prefer to drink a variety of sweet and crooked grape juice, wheat, throat sugar, sugar free gum, mango juice and so on, and also contain aspartame. The seven apple drinks were marked with no preservatives, flavors and granulated sugar on the outer packaging, but the ingredient list contained aspartame.
it is understood that aspartame sweetener has been controversial since its first approval in 80s of last century. A study published in July 2005 by the ramzeni foundation, Italy, said experimental mice were able to eat the same dose of aspartame, which could lead to preterm birth. But European regulators believe that the study is not credible, and aspartame can still be used as a food additive.
the food and drug administration says more than 100 studies have proved aspartame's safety. But regulators admit that aspartame intake by humans should be limited. Pepsi Cola said that they banned aspartame in the United States not because it was proved to be harmful, but because people were worried that it was harmful, resulting in a decline in sales and an impact on revenue, and it was also troubled by Coca-Cola.