In an even that one wants to make something taste sweeter, an individual is faced with two choices; they can either use sugar and sugar alcohols or artificial sweeteners. In choosing to use artificial sweeteners also called sugar substitutes or nonnutritive sweeteners or noncaloric sweeteners, one can either use acesulfame K, neotame, saccharin, sucralose and finally Aspartame. Aaspartame is a lab manufactured sweetener that does not exist in the form of a naturally grown product like sugarcane aand other natural products but rather it is formed in the laboratories. They are chemically engineered in the form of molecules. Aspartame like the other four, is approved artificial sweeteners in the United States and the first time it hit the market, it was sold under the umbrella name of NutraSweet. Aspartic acid/phenylalanine dipeptide can be made …show more content…
Aspartame usually increases the muscles movement that is uncontrollable usually caused by Tardive Dyskinesia (a condition whereby an individual experiences movements that are involuntary in their lips, tongues, face and even trunk).
Aspartame can affect the unborn child of a woman who has phenylketonuria in that it can cause the child to be born with conditions like impaired neurological function; a situation whereby the neurological system is not functioning the way it normally should, congenital heart disease; a condition whereby the heart does not function appropriately as it should as from birth and even microcephalus; a situation whereby your child has a tiny head that is unproportional to the body because the brain failed to develop completely.
For one reason or the other, aspartame containing products tend to cause you gain weight. The explanations given