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Diet sodas are filled with poop. Seriously.

How many diet sodas do you drink in a day?

Two? Three? Twelve?

There’s a reason Diet Coke is more popular than regular Coca-Cola — people just like the taste better, regardless of whether they’re drinking it because it’s a diet beverage or not.

But have you looked at the ingredient label lately?

Sweet Poison: How the World's Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us - My Story
Sweet Poison:
How the World’s Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us – My Story

The one ingredient that should stick out to you is ASPARTAME.  It’s a sweetener from Monsanto that’s in, like, a gazillion products.

And would you believe that ASPARTAME IS MADE FROM POOP?

Technically, not poop.  But aspartame is manufactured from the waste product of e.coli bacteria, and e.coli is often associated with feces.

Yeah, there’s a bunch of chemical reactions that take you from e.coli to the sweet, sweet taste of your favorite diet beverage.  But isn’t this the sort of thing that would just make you want to give up drinking any diet beverages ever again?

Yeah, we thought so.