How to Use aspartame in a Sentence

aspartame

noun
Definition of aspartamenext
  • And there is eight times as much of it in milk as in aspartame.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
  • What didn’t come from the FDA was the mid-90s aspartame panic.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
  • What didn’t come from the FDA was the mid-90s aspartame panic.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
  • But Tab drinkers protested the change to the drink’s flavor profile, and the company dropped aspartame from the recipe.
    — Jeffrey Miller, The Conversation, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Enough shoppers balked at the new recipe that Pepsi brought the aspartame version back the following year.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • This is also the first time the IARC has evaluated aspartame.
    — Nicole Wetsman, ABC News, 13 July 2023
  • Both drinks are sweetened with aspartame, but the new recipe will move closer to the original taste of Coca-Cola.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 26 July 2017
  • Until those studies are done, Azad stressed that people should take these early results with a grain of aspartame.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2017
  • So changing our diet to include low-calorie sweeteners, such as sucralose and aspartame, should be a good way to get all the sweet taste without any of the guilt.
    — Havovi Chichger, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In the United States and Canada, both the old and new versions use the same ingredients, aspartame and acesulfame K, to sweeten the product.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 13 July 2021
  • Chocolate, aged cheeses, salty foods, and food additives like aspartame and MSG are among the ones migraineurs mention most often.
    — Colleen Stinchcombe, Health.com, 18 Jan. 2022
  • What that means is no sugar, no aspartame, no preservatives, no high fructose corn syrup.
    — Essence, 1 June 2021
  • Now the space next to the cafeteria has been repurposed as a round-the-clock N95 fit-testing station, thrumming with staff members getting sprayed with aspartame.
    — Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The aspartame hoax grew with it, as people tried to navigate this new technology.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
  • High consumers of aspartame registered with a 15 percent greater chance of cancer.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Research clearly shows people are wary of aspartame as a sweetener.
    — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2017
  • As the story goes, James Schlatter synthesized aspartame in a lab in 1965 while researching anti-ulcer drugs.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 18 July 2023
  • The standard Celsius essential energy drink has only 10 calories and is free from high fructose corn syrup and aspartame.
    — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-Cpt, Good Housekeeping, 10 June 2022
  • Both are sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame K, though Zero Sugar is formulated to taste more like the original Coke.
    — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Just steer clear of artificial sweeteners like aspartame, which are worse than just eating sugar.
    — Dave Asprey, PEOPLE.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Acevedo, however, says that Ace-K and aspartame are blended together very differently in the two brands.
    — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The sweetener was discovered in the 1960s and is often paired with aspartame, especially in diet sodas.
    — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Cane sugar, honey, maple syrup, agave nectar, Splenda, aspartame, saccharin, and corn syrup.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 23 June 2020
  • While the body can handle small amounts of it, usually found in fruits and vegetables and diet sodas containing aspartame, larger amounts can be dangerous to ingest.
    — Asia Ewart, refinery29.com, 22 June 2020
  • The committee also did not find evidence linking aspartame to other diseases risks, except for one paper that showed a risk of type 2 diabetes.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 13 July 2023
  • Neither the parents, the children nor the research staff knew which of the children were getting sugary foods and which were getting a diet sweetened with aspartame and other artificial sweeteners.
    — Richard Klasco, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
  • To start, researchers added saccharin, aspartame or sucralose (common artificial sweeteners) to the drinking water of three groups of mice for 11 weeks.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2014
  • In 1982, Tab was reformulated yet again to include Nutrasweet, also known as aspartame.
    — Jeffrey Miller, The Conversation, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Almost 20 years after the letter, people still question aspartame.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
  • The tangerine tango and mojito lime flavors — all aspartame-free — will make your evening commute feel slightly more tropical.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2018

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