Wrigley uses aspartame as a sweetener in their sugarfree gums – is it bad for you?
The Wrigley Company’s primary goal is, and always will be, to manufacture products that are safe and meet local and International food regulations. Aspartame is approved by the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives of the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Foods and by regulatory authorities in over 100 countries around the world. Aspartame is perhaps the most rigorously tested food additive in history, with a record of over 25 years in the market place and with an estimated 250 million consumers worldwide. Aspartame is made from two amino acids which are the building blocks of protein. Aspartame’s components are digested, absorbed and metabolised as if they were derived from everyday foods. These components can also be found in vegetables, meat, dairy products and grains and therefore aspartame brings nothing new to our diet.
