Reports of adverse reactions to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also support this,
as aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA.
Michael Blaut, a microbiologist at the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam, Germany, says the mouse data are «believable and remarkable,» but says he has a hard time imagining a mechanism that would
account for three compounds
as chemically different
as aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose leading to the same changes in the gut microbiome.