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Diet Sodas and sodas in general contain ingredients that could be sabotaging your diet or lifestyle changes. This is a very small list of food additive ingredients found in some common drinks. Listed you’ll find their meanings, what they really are and where you’re likely find them.

Ingredients underlined in red are food additives and ingredients highlighted in blue are GMO or genetically engineered ingredients/ chemicals.



Acesulfame Potassium (Ace K) – E950
-This is/Known as:- Artificial sweetener.
-Potential Dangers:- The Center for Science in Public Interest says to avoid it because safety testing done in 1970’s were inadequate and some research links it to cancer. See “Artificial Sweeteners”.
-Where you’ll find it:- Diet drinks, protein shakes and powders, fruit cups, yogurts, “sugar-free” products.


Artificial Flavors
-This is/Known as: -Synthetic flavor made from proprietary chemicals.
-Potential Dangers:- These are used to make fake food taste real. This is not a single ingredient – each flavor may contain of up to 100 ingredients, including synthetic chemicals, solvents and preservatives such as BHA, propylene glycol, MSG, parabens, and more.
-Where you’ll find it:- Cereal, candy, drink mixes, desserts, soft drinks.


Artificial Sweeteners
-This is/Known as:- Zero calorie sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose.
-Potential Dangers:- Although they have no calories, artificial sweeteners have been shown to contribute to weight gain by encouraging sugar cravings. Research finds they stimulate your appetite, increase sugar cravings, and promote fat storage and weight gain. Researchers from the University of Texas discovered that drinking sodas made with artificial sweeteners will expand your waist girth, which is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. When you eat something sweet – even when it has no calories – your brain is tricked into wanting more calories because your body is not getting enough energy (i.e. calories) to be satisfied. So you keep craving sweets, eating sweets, and gaining weight. This is why a lot of people never reach their full health potential or weight loss goals, because they are constantly being pushed around by

-Artificial sweeteners -
I wanted to share a small list of ingredients/additives/chemicals that are in artificial sweeteners. Many diabetics/consumers assume they are safe because of the way that they're marketed to us. However they contain ingredients that could be sabotaging your diet or lifestyle changes. This is a list of food additive ingredients found in artificial sweeteners . Listed you’ll find their meanings, what they really are and where you’re likely find them.

Ingredients underlined in red are food additives and ingredients highlighted in blue are GMO or genetically engineered ingredients/ chemicals. Listed below is the truth, that has been researched.




Acesulfame Potassium (Ace K) – E950
This is/Known as: Artificial sweetener.
Potential Dangers: The Center for Science in Public Interest says to avoid it because safety testing done in 1970’s were inadequate and some research links it to cancer. See “Artificial Sweeteners”.
Where you’ll find it: Diet drinks, protein shakes and powders, fruit cups, yogurts, “sugar-free” products.

Artificial Sweeteners
This is/Known as: Zero calorie sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose.
Potential Dangers: Although they have no calories, artificial sweeteners have been shown to contribute to weight gain by encouraging sugar cravings. Research finds they stimulate your appetite, increase sugar cravings, and promote fat storage and weight gain. Researchers from the University of Texas discovered that drinking sodas made with artificial sweeteners will expand your waist girth, which is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. When you eat something sweet – even when it has no calories – your brain is tricked into wanting more calories because your body is not getting enough energy (i.e. calories) to be satisfied. So you keep craving sweets, eating sweets, and gaining weight. This is why a lot of people never reach their full health potential or weight loss goals, because they are constantly being pushed around by these chemical artificial sweeteners that trick the brain and body.
-Where you’ll find it:- Anything labeled “diet”, “low calorie”, “sugar-free”, or “reduced sugar”.

Aspartame (Nutrasweet) – E95

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Corn Oil
-This is/Known as:- Refined cooking oil.
-Potential Dangers:- Goes through an insane amount of processing with chemical solvents, steamers, neutralizers, de-waxers, bleach and deodorizers before it ends up in the bottle. Most often extracted with the neurotoxin hexane – it’s literally bathed in it. Some hexane residue can remain in the oil, and the FDA doesn’t require food manufacturers to test for residues. Comes from GMO corn unless Non-GMO Project verified or organic. Loaded with omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids that are unstable when exposed to heat. This instability causes oxidation, a process that generates free radicals. Free radicals are renegade molecules in the body that damage cells, triggering a host of diseases from liver damage to cancer.
-Where you’ll find it:- Chips, frozen meals, coated pretzels, cookies, sausages, snack mix, crackers, microwave popcorn, canned soups and chili.


Cottonseed Oil
-This is/Known as:- Refined cooking oil.
-Potential Dangers:- This oil is made from a byproduct of the industrial waste from the cotton farming industry, which isn’t a food crop. Despite being one of the most prevalent GMO crops (designed to produce an insecticide), cotton crops still require an intense application of agricultural chemicals and that’s why cotton has been called the “World’s Dirtiest Crop”. Residues from these pesticides can remain in cottonseed oil according to data collected by the FAO/WHO Joint Meetings on Pesticides Residues in Food. To extract the oil the cottonseeds are subjected to intensive chemical refining with toxic hexane, bleach, and deodorizers.
-Where you’ll find it:- Fries, fried foods, chips, baked goods.


Monoglycerides and Diglycerides (mono- and diglycerides) – E471
-This is/Known as:- Emulsifier which helps keep ingredients from separating.
-Potential Dangers:- It is made from oil byproducts including partially hydrogenated canola and soybean oils – which contain artificial trans fat, making this additive a hidden source of trans fat in our food. It is permitted even in foods labeled as “0 grams of trans fat” because it is categorized as an emulsifier (not a lipid) by the FDA. The

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