There’s a shock

[melted welly]

Artificial sweeteners “might” not be as healthy as made out shocker.

Artificial sweeteners to face government scrutiny after WHO report raises health fears

The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition said it planned to work with the Food Standards Agency to see if the ingredients fell through a gap in monitoring

www.thegrocer.co.uk

I’m a bit perplexed as to how anyone ever thought any different, other than due to slick marketing backed by iffy science. Natural product vs chemicals.

I’ll put this in my “surprising revelations” drawer along with news that lab meat maybe isn’t great and carbon credit schemes are open to fraud.

 

[Macsky]

You forgot ‘margarine is the healthy alternative to butter’

 

[wanton dwarf]

A matter of time until Vegan fake meat is outed as harmful to health.

 

[Top Tip.]

A matter of time until Vegan fake meat is outed as harmful to health.

With the number of e numbers in it , it couldn’t possibly be healthy.

 

[Pan mixer]

This could all go down in the no sh!t sherlock department.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

A long time ago I came to the conclusion that if a foodstuff has a factory production process that involves a chemical engineer or a biochemist you're probably best off avoiding it, and artificial sweeteners certainly fit the bill.

 

[Daddy Pig]

You forgot ‘margarine is the healthy alternative to butter’

Its called "Plant based butter" nowadays.