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Which brands of gum use aspartame? All the ones I have use xylitol.

• tezzer 3y ago
  Mentos sugar free gum (since I have some handy) has xylitol, sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol, aspartame, acesulfame, sucralose and "sucrose fatty acid esthers" I seem to recall most xylitol gums also have aspartame, but Mentos is the only one I had handy to check.
  • rjzzleep 3y ago
    Most of them don't have both. Xylitol doesn't really sit right with me though. I would eat xocolate all the time(chocolate that used xylitol as sweetener). It's used in infant tooth paste as well, but I just can't believe that giving 1 year olds a sugar alcohol every day twice a day has no side effects at all. Every couple of years we find these magical ingredients that solve all our problems and fix our teeth at the same time and then a few years later we find out that they weren't quite as healthy after all.
    • Danjoe4 3y ago
      Fluoride, for example. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/
• datavirtue 3y ago
  No mention of that sweet phenylalanine hit you get that doesn't happen with real sugar. A lot of people are hooked on it.