But in April 2015 PepsiCo announced that it will no longer use aspartame in Diet Pepsi, amid popular concern that aspartame causes cancer and other health problems. Do these claims actually hold ...

Medically reviewed by Maggie Moon, MS, RD Diet soda is often thought of as a healthier alternative to regular soda because it ...

PepsiCo removed aspartame from Diet Pepsi in 2015 but brought it back a year later. It remains an ingredient in Diet Pepsi. General Mills’ Yoplait also removed aspartame from its yogurts in 2014.

Seth Kaufman, vice-president of Pepsi, said: “Aspartame is the number one reason consumers are dropping diet soda”. A controversial artificial sweetener is being removed from Diet Pepsi in the ...

A second W.H.O. agency has said that it is safe to consume up to 40 milligrams of aspartame per kilogram of body weight per day, which is equivalent to more than a dozen cans of diet soda for a ...

The World Health Organization’s cancer agency has deemed the sweetener aspartame — found in diet soda and countless other foods — as a “possible” cause of cancer, while a separate expert ...

High profile drinks containing aspartame include Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Pepsi Max, and 7 Up Free, but the sweetener is in around 6,000 food products. The sweetener has been used for decades and ...

The most significant differences between Coke Zero and Diet Coke are in the taste and ingredients. They both contain aspartame, but Coke Zero also uses the sweetener acesulfame potassium and has less ...

Diet soda is often thought of as a healthier alternative to regular soda because it's sugar-free. It uses sugar substitutes like aspartame, making the beverage free from calories and added sugars.