Aspartame Is Not Evil!

[BunnyKillBot]

People just accept it too, there is no requirement for any scientific evidence.

The sad thing is, much of our society operates in this way and nobody cares. It is a life lesson i have come to learn that data can only take an argument so far, because most people are swayed by ideology (Christianity as to Apple) not fact. Thus the whole marketplace degenerates into marketing bs and 'feel well' thinking, and the 'good guys', with scientific data to backup their ideals, are forced to play the same dirty games the bad guys do or risk getting ignored. In this murky mess, how is the average consumer ever supposed to know whats fact and fiction?

Its a shameful and pitiful state of humanity.

 

[Uriel]

If it's of any interest to you they completely remade Diet Coke a few years back, new recipe uses natural stuff (compared to the almost 100% E number recipe of the past).

Not really. I find almost all soft drinks too sweet these days. Mostly I drink, water, tea or coffee (all without sugar). If I have normal Coke I prefer to water it down with sparkling water to take the edge off the sweetness.

 

[MikeTheNative]

The common use of E numbers when talking about food/drink stuff is usually to refer to the artificial ingredients (and the context is usually that they are bad things). Usually when somebody wants to refer to something like caramel they just say caramel not E-150, likewise when somebody wants to refer to Sodium Benzoate they usually use E-211.

People have no idea what E numbers actually are, stolen from wikipedia 'E numbers are codes for substances that can be used as food additives for use within the European Union and Switzerland'. They just hear E Number and automatically thinks it is bad.