Artificial sweeteners are often bad news in terms of your health. Take aspartame, an artificial sweetener used in everything from Diet Coke to sugar-free gum. Marketed under the brand name NutraSweet, aspartame is manufactured and distributed by Monsanto, the multinational corporation that brought the world genetically modified seeds and Agent Orange. It's been linked to cancer, brain damage, and bizarrely, is scientifically proven to cause compulsive over-eating disorders. Dieters beware of dieting products.
Erythritol doesn't sound very whoesome or natural by name, but in fact it's simply made from cane sugar. In the case of this new brand,
Organic Zero, the sugar is organically grown.
Pure organic cane sugar is dissolved in water, and fermented with a USDA-approved fun
