Aspartame

Last month, WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer declared aspartame — a popular artificial sweetener that is used in products like soft drinks, chewing gum and ice cream — a potential carcinogen.

Leaders of the oncology community expressed mixed reaction to International Agency for Research on Cancer’s declaration of aspartame as possibly carcinogenic to humans.

One of the most popular artificial sweeteners is a potential carcinogen and people should consume only 40 mg/kg body weight daily, according to WHO committees.

Fewer people in the United States are buying products with containing only caloric sweeteners like sugar, but more are buying products with both caloric and nonnutritive sweeteners, according to a study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.