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Originally Posted by Bossnass
Not to threadjack, but my understanding is that any study that proved aspartame was bad has been completly debunked.
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Aspartame contains phenylalanine and is unsafe for those born with phenylketonuria (PKU). That's the proven part. The rest has to do with aspartame being broken down into methanol in the small intestine and converted into formaldehyde. Wikipedia can answer some of your questions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame