I am finding that the knowledge out there that Aspartame is in chewable vitamins and children’s vitamins is rare. Although I did not know that it was actually poison, I was made aware of Aspartame health hazards back in 1991 or 1992 after I had been consuming NutraSweet on a regular basis, and was having increasing excruciating monthly periods. They escalated, and finally I was finding myself bedridden 3 days at a time at least once a month. I took myself off NutraSweet, and slowly but surely, my monthly periods got much better, and I was feeling better overall. I avoided the stuff like it was poison, as I have since found that it actually is. Years later in 2001,
I became pregnant with my second child and began bingeing on chewable vitamin C because of the health benefits I was aware of as I was preparing to have a scheduled C-Section delivery.
3 months after delivery, I began experiencing very similar symptoms like that of the ones I had had years ago with my period, and during my ovulations. Passing time one day in the kitchen, I for no reason happened to glance through the ingredients to my chewable vitamin C. You can imagine my anger when I saw the word ASPARTAME in my VITAMINS! I began to scour the ingredients to ALL vitamins! I was absolutely infuriated to find that nearly ALL children’s vitamins found in supermarkets, and grocery stores have ASPARTAME in them! Namely ALL varieties of the FLINSTONE’s chewables ALL contain ASPARTAME!
As I have explored information on ASPARTAME, I have not yet come across info discussing the fact that this is an ingredient widely used in chewable vitamins! Please get the word out!