Other Alternate Sweeteners

Is there a list of products with aspartame?

The most frequent question we get at DORway is “Is there is a list of products that use aspartame?” Unfortunately, there isn’t a comprehensible one available. My father started a small list that you can view here. But please be aware that the list is old, and worse, aspartame is estimated to be in 10,000 products, including prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

It is marketed as aspartame, NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, Naturtaste, E951, Canderel and Benevia and just 951 in New Zealand. Because the patent on aspartame has expired, it is now in all types of products, which use their own private names. Sometimes, they just put “contains phenylalanine” because the law requires a PKU warning for phenylketonurics who cannot metabolize the phenylalanine in aspartame. In Greece, they even put aspartame in Sweet N Low, also known in the U.S. as saccharin.

Your best defense is to know how to read your food label (http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/foodlab.html) and avoid the use of processed foods. I stumbled upon an article recently that may help. Check out How to Read Food Labels on Scientific Psychic.

What We Use

One of the questions I get frequently in e-mail is about sugar substitutes – what to use. Three we hear a great deal of positive things about are:

Stevia


You don’t have to wait on the corporations to introduce this newly FDA-approved sweetener into your foods. The real thing has been available as a supplement for years.

Product Information:

  • Pack of four packages, each package containing 100 natural, calorie-free sweetener tablets (400 total tablets)
  • Contains 30 grams of stevia (leaf) extract; each tablet as sweet as on teaspoon of sugar; no artificial sweeteners; 100% natural
  • 100% fat, calorie, and carbohydrate free; quickly dissolves in hot liquid
  • All-natural sweetener used for centuries in South America
  • Made from stevia leaves grown in Paraguay

Just Like Sugar

Product Information:

Food sensitivity
Free Of Soy, yeast, animal derivatives, MSG, l-glutamic acid, d-glutamine acid, aspartic acid, gluten, wheat, dairy and preservatives.

Nutrition facts
Calories 0″ Calories from Fat 0″Total Fat 0 g 0%”Saturated Fat 0 g 0%”Trans Fat 0 g *”Cholesterol 0 mg 0%”Sodium 0 g 0%” Total Carbohydrate 0 g 0%”Dietary Fiber 0 g 0%”Sugars 0 g”Protein 0 g *”Vitamin A 0% “Vitamin C 0%”Calcium 0%”Iron 0%

List of marketing terms for aspartame courtesy of Dr. Betty Martini..