nutrasweet Aster She tried to sweeten her life with artificial substances to make the days more bearable. Soon, she discovered that using sugar is better, because it's real. 010427 ... TalviFatin Ok. My grandmother must use this stuff instead of real sugar because she's Diabetic. But ya know, this stuff can make you more idiotic and feather-minded. Theres a chemical that deteriorates the brain and normal functioning. Its showing every day in her. 011026 ... pure cane granulated birdmad aspartame degrades into formaldehyde somewhere along the line 011026 ... june Why is it being used if it is so bad? So l i k e my b r a i n is m e l t i n g? 040212 ... bird aspartame only degrades into (very low level amounts of) formaldehyde after prolonged exposure to warm temperatures (above 85°F) other than that, the only other breakdown it is subject to would render products containing it obviously undrinkable on first taste. the meme that aspartame is some insidious menace lurking in the products that use ti waiting to poison you almost always seem to come from someone advocating a sweetener derived from stevia personally, now that i can't have sugar in any considerable volume anymore, i prefer sucralose (Splenda) it really does taste a hell of a lot better than saccharine or aspartame 040212 what's it to you? who go blather from