Aspartame is an artificial sweetener. It’s roughly 200 times as sweet as sugar and doesn’t have the bitter aftertaste of stevia [2]. That’s why you need 200 times less aspartame to give a food or drink the same sweetness. So you’re consuming 200 times fewer calories. Aspartame is basically calorie-free. Aspartame doesn’t affect your appetite, glucose or insulin levels and can thus easily save you lots of calories in your diet and result in relatively easy weight loss [2, 3, 4, 5].   Aspartame isn’t very heat stable though, so you can’t add it to anything before you bake or … Continue reading Is aspartame safe?