Aspartame is used in diet coke, ice cream, chewing gum, diet soda, sugar-free soda, cereals, low-calorie coffee sweeteners, puddings, sugar-free desserts, sugar-free jams, and various other low-sugar or sugar-free packaged foods. “#WHO’s listing of #aspartame as possibly carcinogenic won’t affect drink companies that much as there are many other sweeteners, such as sucralose and stevia, they can use in sugar-free drinks, Li Shuguang, member of the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology, told Economic View,” Yicai Global reported.