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Acesulfame Potassium

Potentially Harmful

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-09/wios-gba091514.php

Gut bacteria, artificial sweeteners and glucose intolerance

The benefits and risks of acesulfame potassium

Artificial sweeteners and cancer risk: Results from the NutriNet-Santé population-based cohort study

Artificial sweeteners and risk of cardiovascular diseases: results from the prospective NutriNet-Santé cohort

Potassium Benzoate

https://www.fda.gov/food/chemicals/questions-and-answers-occurrence-benzene-soft-drinks-and-other-beverages

Questions and Answers on the Occurrence of Benzene in Soft Drinks and Other Beverages

Benzoic acid and its derivatives as naturally occurring compounds in foods and as additives: Uses, exposure, and controversy

Benzene as a Chemical Hazard in Processed Foods

Sensitivity to food additives, vaso-active amines and salicylates: a review of the evidence

European Food Safety Authority

Aspartame

Aspartame—True or False? Narrative Review of Safety Analysis of General Use in Products

Chemical Cuisine - Safety of food additives

Aspartame administered in feed, beginning prenatally through life span, induces cancers of the liver and lung in male Swiss mice

Identification of aspartame-induced haematopoietic and lymphoid tumours in rats after lifetime treatment

Consumption of artificial sweetener– and sugar-containing soda and risk of lymphoma and leukemia in men and women

CONTAINS: CARBONATED WATER, CITRIC ACID, ASPARTAME, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (AS A PRESERVATIVE), POTASSIUM CITRATE, NATURAL FLAVOR AND ACESULFAME POTASSIUM.

Natural Flavor

Questionable

https://www.ewg.org/foodscores/content/natural-vs-artificial-flavors/

Synthetic ingredients in Natural Flavors and Natural Flavors in Artificial flavors

We are what we eat: Regulatory gaps in the United States that put our health at risk

Food-Induced Anaphylaxis: Role of Hidden Allergens and Cofactors

The GRAS provision - The FEMA GRAS program and the safety and regulation of flavors in the United States

Citric Acid

Pub Med - Potential role of the common food additive manufactured citric acid in eliciting significant inflammatory reactions contributing to serious disease states: A series of four case reports

Potential role of the common food additive manufactured citric acid in eliciting significant inflammatory reactions contributing to serious disease states: A series of four case reports

WESTERN FAMILY, SPARKLING WATER BEVERAGE, BLACK CHERRY, BLACK CHERRY

Western Family Foods, Inc.

WESTERN FAMILY, SPARKLING WATER BEVERAGE, BLACK CHERRY, BLACK CHERRY

Water

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