12 Jul 2023

Aspartame: How Dangerous is it?

From Nights, 9:30 pm on 12 July 2023

Aspartame. It's one of the world's most popular artificial sweeteners, and it recently made the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

According to news agency Reuters, the sweetener will reportedly be classified as a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organisation this month after years of conflicting research.

Gunter Kuhnle Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Reading in the UK explains what the research actually says.