What is Aspartame?

In the food industry, a sweetener named Aspartame, or in English speaking countries Aspartame. It was discovered in 1965 and was industrialized until the eighties. It is considered safe and an acceptable daily intake (ADI) level of 40 milligrams per kilogram was established. of the individual's weight, this would lead us to an estimate of: 2,800 milligrams per day in a person of about 70 kilos.
It has the approval made by the FDA, (Food and Drug Administration of the United States), carried out in 1974.
There are those who consider that it has adverse effects on health. The Italian scientist Morando Soffritti, claimed certain carcinogenic effects when consumed in the long term. He carried out an experiment feeding rats with aspartame for eight years, concluding that it could have carcinogenic effects.
After deeply studying the evidence in this regard, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA for its found no basis for these assertions and maintained that aspartame is safe for consumption human.

This sweetener is the chemical compound, (methyl ester), originated by two natural amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylananine. These in the stomach, are hydrolyzed, letting out both amino acids. It is only under certain extreme acidic conditions that methanol could appear, in which its liver metabolite, formaldehyde, would be toxic to the body. For this the ingested amount of aspartame should be exaggerated.
The Aspartame o aspartame is a partial or total substitute for sugar, and is used for people with metabolic diseases, like diabetes, they cannot consume sugars, and it is also used for people trying to lose weight weight. The Aspartame it cannot be consumed by people with phenylketonuria, a kidney disease.