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False information from company - Advertising Standards?

[Deleted User] · 2023-07-24 11:21:09

Not the biggest deal in the world, but something that irritates me and I'm wondering if Advertising Standards would be interested. In summary, several months ago I emailed Silver Spoon to ask how much Aspartame was in their Half Spoon sugar. The label states that there is 98.9% sugar, with the remaining 1.1%…

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[Deleted User] Posts: 120 Forumite

26 July 2023 at 11:20AM

tightauldgit said:

14 is the number of cans of diet coke you would have to drink in a day to reach the limit of what's 'safe'

That's what I concluded too. She'd read somewhere that you could drink 14 bottles of Diet Cola and remain within the aspartame limit, and that translated to throwing out this number at random to claim that there are 14g of aspartame in a bottle of Diet Cola. Just imagine the taste - you'd likely throw it up immediately.

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