Aspartame

Thank you all for your interesting comments, we really are a group of mostly sensible minds

esspee ^ no doctored items such as gluten free^

Things can be gluten-free without being ‘doctored’. You just have to leave out anything with wheat.
A friend came to stay with me who is gluten and lactose intolerant.
I made a Yotam Ottolenghi cake for dessert using olive oil instead of butter, and ground almonds instead of the flour. It worked very well & nothing artificial at all.

no doctored items such as gluten free.
Gluten free items are not doctored.

You can purchase all kinds of flour which are gluten free and good for different kinds of cooking and baking.
In fact, you could say that modern wheat has been doctored more than some of the grains used in GF flour.

Xantham gum is produced by fermentation from, for example, corn.
Agar agar is produced from algae.
No different than using yeast.

Think aspartame contains wood alcohol, which the liver has to process?

If that’s true Wolwol, I’ll tell DH to watch out. He has cirrhosis.

Aspartame gives my DD a blinding migraine,

Lots of fake news on Facebook

Aspartame FACTS from NHS website

I have heard, and can well believe it, that the sugar producers have been behind the campaign of misinformation about aspartame from the start. They were also behind the suppression of Yudkin's warnings about the dangers of sugar in the 1960s. His book 'Pure, White and Deadly' was the precursor of our modern low carb diets. I followed his advice in the late 60s and managed to control my weight to fit my rather nice wedding dress.