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- From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Anthony Wallis)
- Subject: Aspertame (was Toads and Frogs)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.211934.6556@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
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- Organization: York University
- References: <1992Sep9.033057.15278@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:19:34 GMT
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- (Not really sci.bio but ..)
- Marvin Minsky mused:
- > [about the unknown factor killing amphibians worldwide]
- > .. What is X? Haven't the foggiest. I wonder if, for example,
- > NutraSweet has been tested on batrachians. Has any other new substance
- > been distributed on quite so large a scale? I mention this only
- > because it's sometimes hard to find a "classic" soft drink, and there
- > is a small minority of us who find that particular dipeptide to have a
- > rather nasty aftertaste.
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- And I thought I was alone ! Aspertame tastes so bad and "chemical" (to
- me) that I wondered how they ever conned the public into accepting it
- as a "sweetener". Absolutely nothing like sucrose, glucose, fructose, ..
-
- [It may be irrelevant but I have a defective sense of smell.
- Mercaptans and isocyanides are neutral to me.]
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- tony@nexus.yorku.ca = Tony Wallis, York University, Toronto, Canada
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