The sweetener used in most diet sodas today, including Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, is aspartame, which was classified as “possibly carcinogenic” by the World Health Organization’s ...

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.

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.

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 ...

In April, PepsiCo announced that it was removing aspartame from Diet Pepsi in response to growing consumer concern about the artificial sweetener's possible adverse health effects, and ...

It shouldn’t. The research on aspartame’s “link” to cancer hinges on an individual consumer weighing 132 pounds and drinking 12 to 36 cans of diet soda in one day to reach the threshold ...