I love Sweetie Belle’s face in cotrast with her disgusted friends. Looks like someone found out they have a feedee/weight gain kink.

@Agent Tasmania  
Shhhh, don’t point out silly things like facts. Think of the poor fearmongers.

@AlushyTheTyrant  
Which many other processes in our own bodies also produce anyway.

@Background Pony #10AF  
Plus aspartame in its most broken down state is formaldehyde, the main substance to embalming fluid.

@Agent Tasmania  
Aspartame is a neurotoxin and sucralose is a laxative.

@TheDog  
If no one in Manehattan recognizes them, there’s not much hope for ponies in the human world.

@Kryptid  
I could only imagine how Kevin would react if someone made a picture of him doing one of the many challenges as a pony.

Twilight is L.A. Beast.

@TJPones
 
But Brownie should know who Fluttershy is. Maybe not on a personal level, but she should at least recognize the name of the pegasus who helped save Equestria several times alongside Princess Twilight.

@Fenrixer  
Then why claim that they are poison? Aspartame is fine; don’t encourage myths.

@Blissey1  
To be brutally honest, that’s the same reason I avoid artificial sweeteners myself. I just remember this stuff being drilled into my head as a kid.

@Mildgyth  
I like Fresca. I think that’s sweetened with aspartame.

@Blissey1
 
I did. i tried to drink from a bottle of artificial sweetener once, and couldn’t even get past the first drop.

@Background Pony #D6DB  
I avoid artificial sweetners cause, I dunno if you’ve ever tried them by themselves, but unlike actual sugar, they taste like shit

@Fenrixer
 
Some people are sensitive to aspartame, but unless you have a very specific metabolic disorder, it’s quite safe. In fact, because of the controversies surrounding it, it is probably the most studied artificial sweetener. There’s over 40 years of data for it, and if you instead use saccharin, over 100 years.
 
Also, the FDA isn’t shy about banning artificial sweeteners (see cyclamate, which has been banned and unbanned in other countries a few times). There are many to choose from and all are cheaper than real sugar, so if any data actually points towards danger they pull the plug pretty quickly. There IS evidence of saccharin causing bladder cancer in rats, however there’s no evidence that it affects humans similarly (and, again, >100 years of human data). Rats have different urine conditions, which seems to account for it. Rodent models are not that great for a lot of things, actually…
 
There’s nothing wrong with avoiding it, though.

@orochijes  
Exactly what I was going for. People always ask me what Brownie thinks of like Fluttershy.
 
“Who?”

I guess Ponyville isn’t the center of the world.

@Fenrixer  
Some people respond funny to aspartame and it needs to be in significant amounts (more than the one drink) before the odd things effect most people.

“Your”? She’s your Princess too. You’re stuck with her just as much as we are.

Is it bad I imagine Twilight as Wimpy from Popeye?
 
@Itsthinking
 
Me too XD

@Background Pony #B03F  
Funny thing is, with all the chemicals they put in place of the sugar, you’re better off with the normal coke. That being said, you still shouldn’t make it a regular habit.

Simpson’s reference, love it.

good work twi

And a diet coke.