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Kirkland Diet Cola from Costco uses Splenda (sucralose), not aspartame:
Murray 2004.11.02 rmforall

" Costco Diet Cola w/ splenda

Picked up a 24-pack 12 oz. cans of Kirkland Diet Cola (sweetened w/ Splenda)
at Costco yesterday for $3.79. They also had a 24-pack 20 oz bottles for $8.

It tasted like diet rite " March 3 2004 Hippieville, OR

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hangover symptoms from methanol from dark wines and liquors or 11% methanol
part of aspartame, review of research: Jones AW 1988: Murray 2004.10.23
rmforall

Fully 11% of aspartame is methanol -- 1,120 mg aspartame in 2 L diet soda,
almost six 12-oz cans, gives 123 mg methanol (wood alcohol). However,
about 30% of the methanol remains in the body as cumulative durable toxic
metabolites of formaldehyde and formic acid, 37 mg daily, a gram every
month, accumulating in and affecting every tissue -- over 60 times the USA
EPA limit for formaldehyde in drinking water.

Aspartame is made of phenylalanine (50% by weight) and aspartic acid (39%),
both ordinary amino acids, bound loosely together by methanol (wood alcohol,
11%). Similar amounts of methanol in many fruits and vegetables, locked up
in complex pectin molecules, and always paired with ethanol, its natural
antidote, are not usually released by human digestion and so are harmless.
But the readily released methanol from aspartame is within hours largely
turned by the liver into formaldehyde and then formic acid, both potent,
cumulative toxins.

Red wine contains twice as much methanol as does diet soda as an impurity,
about one part in ten thousand. It is the natural conversion by the body of
this methanol into formaldehyde and formic acid that is the main cause of
the well known "morning after" hangover symptoms: headache, nausea,
weakness, impaired memory, irritability, anxiety, "brain fog", body pains --
the same symptoms as aspartame victims.

Jones AW.
Elimination half-life of methanol during hangover.
Pharmacol Toxicol. 1987 Mar; 60(3): 217-20. PMID: 3588516
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#1 Mon, Mar-01-04, 14:37 h2dk New Member

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Costco Diet Cola w/ splenda

Picked up a 24-pack 12 oz. cans of Kirkland Diet Cola (sweetened w/ Splenda)
at Costco yesterday for $3.79. They also had a 24-pack 20 oz bottles for $8.

It tasted like diet rite

#2 Tue, Mar-02-04, 15:21 DWRolfe Forum Moderator

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Thanks for the heads up on this. I'll pick some up on my next trip to
Costco!

#3 Wed, Mar-03-04, 19:14 h2dk New Member

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by the way, it has caffeine

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