Comments | fabricdragon: ASPARTAME/NEOTAME warning@!!!!!!

fabricdragon

ASPARTAME/NEOTAME warning@!!!!!!

Dec 29, 2010 23:59

allergy alert

the artificial sweetener "Neotame" which is chemical cousin to Aspartame, but DOES NOT require the phenylalanine warning label. has now been approved for USDA organic foods.
link HERE

guys, this is beyond bad. its bad enough this crp doesn't get the phenylalanine warning that so many of us rely on to identify Aspartame (trade name ( Read more... )

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Comments 24

pickleboot December 30 2010, 06:13:03 UTC

i avoid anything ending in ame as a rule, but this is good to know.

it is in zofram, even the solid pill. lovely for those of us with nasty migraines and no other choice, right?

fabricdragon December 30 2010, 14:22:41 UTC

i am of the opinion that anything with any kind of artificial sweetener should be forced to have a notice. mind you i also think they should REQUIRE you to label the front of the box whenever you change ingredients, just to avpoid things like what happened to my friend., her NON diet lemonade descided to save money by switching to a artificial sweetener.

schneckerock December 30 2010, 21:14:14 UTC

regular non-diet yogurt at target has aspartame! it doesn't say "sugar free" or "light" or anything on the front...

fabricdragon December 30 2010, 21:29:25 UTC

nod. exactly

whats even WORSE is when it used to be ok, but they changed the formula..
we cought a CASE of our favorite "diet iced tea straws" and they changed the artificial sweetener half the boxes wre safe for us, half were not.. so now we have to read EVERY single label, even in a box full of "the same thing"

warning labels. they shoudl mandate a big label that says "changed ingredients"

noxcat December 30 2010, 06:39:31 UTC

Aspartame is less objectionable to me than almost all other sweeteners - including sugar.

fabricdragon December 30 2010, 14:23:30 UTC

good for you if you can handle it. but for those of us who cant? we rely on warning labels to tell us its in there.

also i dont think any chemically created sweetener shoudl be in my "organic" food

noxcat December 30 2010, 16:31:31 UTC

I agree on the 'organic' part.

But I do have serious problems with Splenda (sucralose) and there is no warning note for that. So I read the ingredients list - there really is no substitute for reading that. They are required to list all ingredients, so you don't need PKU warning.

fabricdragon December 30 2010, 16:37:43 UTC

i have sadly found that they switch TO aspartame FROM splenda, with no notice. but not the reverse.

so a lot of my foods i KNEW had splenda (which i can have) suddenly have aspartame. and i find out when thyere is a reaction.

my friend had her NON DIET lemonade change to aspartame.

sadly, it seems that you have to read the entire label, every single box, every time you buy anything.. and i think thats criminal. they should require a notice saying "changed ingredients" whenever they do that

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sodyera December 30 2010, 11:29:16 UTC

I'm allergic to all the artificial sweeteners. It's sugar for me or not at all, which would be bad.

freya46 December 30 2010, 17:58:59 UTC

Have you tried pure stevia leaf? Not the packaged stuff since those have something else in them. You can grow stevia. My brother has a house up NE of Toronto and he had it growing in his garden.

calandria December 30 2010, 18:27:53 UTC

Just don't try and use Stevia in brownies. A friend of mine did that and they were the most horrible, disgusting things I have ever eaten.

freya46 December 30 2010, 18:50:12 UTC

Heh. I can imagine. It is disgustingly sweet and if too much is used...
But on the rare occurrence that I have coffee, I prefer it to sugar and I try not to use anything with aspartame.

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guendalina December 30 2010, 11:41:22 UTC

damn...like i don't have enough things to watch out for on food lables butnow i can't just grabif it says organic.....blah.

sorry for the length.. natasiakith December 30 2010, 11:46:23 UTC

If it isn't marked as organic by someone other than the usda, I treat the product as if it were in the rest of the store. Which means that it better not be more expensive, or it can stay on the shelf.

Personally, I don't like the way aspartame tastes. It's bitter to me.

The actual FDA page is here:

http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/GuidanceDocuments/FoodLabelingNutrition/FoodLabelingGuide/ucm064880.htm

The only possible exemptions I found were for allergy listing, but since I'm dealing with the weirdness of social security right now, I am fully aware that there may be other rules listed in some seemingly random place.

Also, there is a 1996 nastygram which I though was entertaining even now.