You have to click on the Wikipedia link to find that aspartame is the sweetener.

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The safety of sweeteners, like aspartame, has been extensively tested by scientists and is assured by regulators.

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Merisant, which makes Equal, an aspartame sweetener, declared bankruptcy in January 2009, having been caught out by changing tastes.

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Wine, beer and liquor manufacturers don't have to list ingredients but must list substances people might be sensitive to, such as sulfites, certain food colorings and aspartame.

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For sheer chutzpah few cases exceed the attempted class actions against Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo for selling fountain drinks that contained small amounts of saccharin instead of aspartame sweetener.

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Unlike aspartame, it did not fall apart when baked.

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When they looked at the two studies combined, they found some trends toward a higher risk of cancers that could be linked with aspartame, but the researchers admitted that the findings could also be due to chance.

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They are generally less sweet than sucrose (table sugar), so they are often mixed with very sweet artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame potassium, to form a palatable substitute in low sugar, low carbohydrate, and diabetic or "diet" products.

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