Chapter 30 - 30: Zero Cola (1)
'Zero Cola' was a drink that was much talked about even in the world of advanced science in the past.
From the unproven safety of artificial sweeteners, to cancer-causing, to gut-wrecking, I've even heard that artificial sweeteners can stimulate the appetite and lead to weight gain.
But most of the media's scaremongering about artificial sweeteners is overblown.
Sugar was a much more dangerous substance to begin with and because of this media scaremongering, people in my former life were forced to become semi-experts on alternative sweeteners, whether they liked it or not.
I know this because I did a lot of research when Zero came out to see if it was really safe to drink.
In the process, I learned about aspartame, the main artificial sweetener in Zero Cola.
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener, not a natural sweetener, but its ingredients are surprisingly simple.
It's just an amino acid found in soybeans and mammalian milk, mixed with a tiny amount of methanol.
The fear-mongering that aspartame was worse than sugar was an example of how stupid the media thinks people are.
However, the media's manipulation of the public has come in handy now that I've been reincarnated in the other world.
I was able to learn the ingredients that go into aspartame.