I guess I'm having trouble figuring out where the numbers are coming from. I'm seeing that the FDA recommended maximum dose for aspartame is 50mg/kg/day. Assum

I guess I'm having trouble figuring out where the numbers are coming from. I'm seeing that the FDA recommended maximum dose for aspartame is 50mg/kg/day. Assuming a 70kg Standard Man, that's 3.5g/day of aspartame. Diet Coke has 125mg per 12oz. can, so that would be 28 cans/day. Each packet should be around 35mg aspartame, so 100 packets/day (the amount of aspartame per packet was hard to find, and the approx. was from an American Cancer Society article). Agreed that 9–12 packets doesn't sound like much, but I think we're talking way more than that.