Acesulfame Potassium

[GoPackGo]

Anybody know why some protein powders are acesulfame potassium free?

[Cogar]

Different manufacturers choose different sweeteners.

[GoPackGo]

So its a sweetener?

[Cogar]

Yes. It is OK, by the way. It is not like aspartame (NutraSweet), where some people are concerned about health issues.

[Cogar]

Let me add that some people have disclosed concerns regarding acesulfame-K as well, but if you check out the literature, you will not find much significant. I went for a search on PubMed, and came up with this article, which sums up the situation nicely.

Artificial sweeteners--do they bear a carcinogenic risk?

Weihrauch MR, Diehl V.

Department of Internal Medicine I of the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. martin.weihrauch@uni-koeln.de

Artificial sweeteners are added to a wide variety of food, drinks, drugs and hygiene products. Since their introduction, the mass media have reported about potential cancer risks, which has contributed to undermine the public's sense of security. It can be assumed that every citizen of Western countries uses artificial sweeteners, knowingly or not. A cancer-inducing activity of one of these substances would mean a health risk to an entire population. We performed several PubMed searches of the National Library of Medicine for articles in English about artificial sweeteners. These articles included 'first generation' sweeteners such as saccharin, cyclamate and aspartame, as well as 'new generation' sweeteners such as acesulfame-K, sucralose, alitame and neotame. Epidemiological studies in humans did not find the bladder cancer-inducing effects of saccharin and cyclamate that had been reported from animal studies in rats. Despite some rather unscientific assumptions, there is no evidence that aspartame is carcinogenic. Case-control studies showed an elevated relative risk of 1.3 for heavy artificial sweetener use (no specific substances specified) of >1.7 g/day. For new generation sweeteners, it is too early to establish any epidemiological evidence about possible carcinogenic risks. As many artificial sweeteners are combined in today's products, the carcinogenic risk of a single substance is difficult to assess. However, according to the current literature, the possible risk of artificial sweeteners to induce cancer seems to be negligible.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...404&query_hl=2

[GoPackGo]

Thanks Much!! Very helpfull