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It's all that oxidisation of your cells from breathing you have to worry about, not Fanta

Jesus christ, the comments in here. It's like the Daily fucking Mail.

Would #rep

Shows how urban legends start

Fanta is Nazi Coke tho

Jesus christ, the comments in here. It's like the Daily fucking Mail.

Not mumsnet level yet tho.

Big aspartame got you good, huh?

Yes coke life used stevia and tasted OK but they pulled it as I guess it was confusing having three low sugar options

They've stopped selling recently but Gloucester Services used to do glass bottles of Joe Tea which was basically a litre of sugar and peaches and goodness me that made a long drive go quickly.

https://joetea.com/pages/glass-joe-tea

Had to scroll way too many pages for someone to post this gag.

I'll listen to the scientists on nutrition before I listen to Pete Townshend, I think 💅

I think the press release that the BBC and others picked up that they based this story on was probably written by a PR agency employed by the sugar industry.

Pretty much the opposite. This came from the WHO after years of lobbying from consumer groups in the US and cancer scientists.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/how-aspartame-made-agenda-whos-cancer-research-arm-2023-07-13/

The honey lemon & ginger one with hot water is incredible.

Reminds me of all the drama (and ongoing drama) of MSG and its inclusion in food.

I suppose the difference is, adding MSG is delicious, replacing sugar with aspartame is not delicious.

And e numbers, remember being a kid and my mum being paranoid about E numbers in food

If you have any unwanted E174 or E175 then I'll gladly take it off your hands and dispose of it safely.

Let's have a shout out for nitrites and nitrates in bacon, ham, salami and other processed meats. This particular cancer scare strikes me as having very strong evidence. Hardly anyone bothers about it. Nearly all the processed meat stocked by supermarkets has nitrites, even though nitrite free versions are available and delicious. But people don't want them. It would be such a shame to get arse cancer from something as joyous as bacon.

It’s cos nitrite-free bacon in a packet goes grey very quickly (whilst remaining perfectly fine to eat), which looks dodgy on your shop’s shelf and you end up not selling any of it, even if your shop is a ‘health food’ one which attracts the ‘correct’ type of punter.

We’re all superficial muppets, even at the cost of arse cancer.

This^^

Maybe they should just keep it frozen then.

The nitrite-free bacon is never lingering uneaten in my house long enough to have ever gone grey.

Exactly. My eating habits (and food waste) were improved dramatically when I did proper planning with what we cook and eat rather than just buying stuff (especially in a big shop) and then having it sit in the fridge for ages.

Working from home means I've got no excuse for a 30 minute walk every day to go to a big supermarket or local grocer to buy relatively fresh stuff. Want a bacon sandwich on a Saturday morning without having to leave the house, buy the bacon on Friday.

Our local Spar has nitrate free bacon, ham and salami though...no such luck. Very hard to get nitrate free.

Alcohol is also a carcinogen but that's not going to go anywhere unless we are allowed other drugs ;)

Shows how urban legends start

The whole 'aspartame causes cancer' shit has been around for 20 years though.
It's not even a new urban legend.

Was just meant more that people have read a headline and not the following text that says we don't know if it causes cancer and will now forever repeat coke zero gives you cancer as fact, far less exciting than Richard Gere's hamster

Yeah. But now those fucks that have been talking shite for the last 20 years get to wave WHO documents at everyone, like they're justified.

Don't drink it because it tastes like shite but don't be afraid it'll kill you.

I'm still angry about being taxed because I exercise a lot. Fucking sugar tax twats.

I remember when the rumour was it causes brain cancer but only in hot weather

Dafuq? Really? I never heard that one. I definitely remember reading one of those aspartameisdeath.com type websites back in the day and then going off and doing about 28 seconds of research from actual science that dispelled everything they were claiming.

I mean the real reason is sweeteners taste like chalk. Sugar ftw.