A toxic sweetener by any other name would smell as sweet
AminoSweet
Sounds sort of appealing, doesn’t it? Yeah, kind of like “AmigoSweet”–your “sweet friend.”
If you want some info about AminoSweet, just go to aminosweet.info, where you’ll find that AminoSweet is a low calorie sweetener that tastes exactly like sugar.
But this is no ordinary sweetener: “It is made from two building blocks of protein just like those found naturally in many everyday foods such as meat, fish, cheese, eggs and milk.
“AminoSweet is digested by the body in exactly the same way as these other protein foods and so does not bring anything new to the diet.”
Huh! Reading that, you’d have no idea how completely and utterly BAD this stuff could be for you!
Meet AminoSweet–the new rebranding of the most notorious of all toxic sweeteners: aspartame.
Ajinomoto–a leading producer of aspartame–recently introduced the new name. Why? Here’s how the company explains it in a press release: “The time is right to remind the industry that aspartame tastes just like sugar, and that it’s made from amino acids–the building blocks of protein that are abundant in our diet.”
When you put it THAT way, it sounds downright nutritious!
Of course…put another way…
In a 2008 study that examined cellular effects of aspartame on the human brain, researchers found that aspartame disturbed amino acid metabolism, as well as protein structure and metabolism and neuronal function. The authors wrote: “Aspartame and its breakdown products cause nerves to fire excessively, which indirectly causes a very high rate of neuron depolarization.”
And a 2005 rat study showed that aspartame “is a multipotential carcinogenic agent, even at a daily dose of 20 mg/kg body weight, much less than the current acceptable daily intake.”
That’s “aspartame.” Now pronounced “AminoSweet.”
To Your Good Health,
Jenny Thompson
Sources:
“Ajinomoto Brands Aspartame ‘AminoSweet'” Shaun Weston, FoodBev, 11/17/09, foodbev.com
“Direct and Indirect Cellular Effects of Aspartame on the Brain” European Journal of Clinical Nutrition” Vol. 62, 2008, newmediaexplorer.org
“First Experimental Demonstration of the Multipotential Carcinogenic Effects of Aspartame Administered in the Feed to Sprague-Dawley Rats” Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 114, no. 3, March 2006, ehp.niehs.nih.gov
“Aspartame Causes Cancer in Rats at Levels Currently Approved for Humans” Medical News Today, 11/23/05, medicalnewstoday.com
