Aspartame belongs to a kind of artificially synthesized sweetener, which is also a commonly used sweetener in food. Many food additives contain aspartame, and its sweetness is 30 times that of sucrose. Ingesting aspartame within the safe range will not harm the human body. If you consume beverages and foods with excessive aspartame content for a long time, it will affect the human nervous system and liver, especially causing greater harm to the elderly and children.
1. Hazards of Aspartame to Human Body If the amount of saccharin does not exceed the standard, it will not harm the human body. If you frequently consume foods with excessive aspartame content, excessive intake will harm the liver and nervous system of the human body. This kind of toxicity is more obvious in groups with weaker metabolic detoxification abilities, such as the elderly and pregnant women, and severe cases may even lead to cancer or fetal malformations. Therefore, some countries have completely banned the use of aspartame, and China has also strictly limited the amount of aspartame used in food processing in a timely manner.
2. Safe Intake of Aspartame A safe aspartame can be ingested by each person at a daily rate of 11 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. For a person with a body weight of 60 kilograms, it is safe to consume 660 milligrams of aspartame per day without causing long-term adverse effects.
3. Can Foods with Added Sugar Be Consumed? Foods containing sugar are edible. Even if we consume one kilogram of these foods every day, such as biscuits, bread, and desserts, the maximum content allowed by the country is 650mg/kg. In addition, the aspartame content in milk tea is not high, and it would take approximately 100 cups of milk tea to exceed the safe intake of aspartame in a day.
