Assertion: aspartame's breakdown product | /r/HasProperty | neurotoxic
Facets:
value: potentially
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Each of the three components of aspartame — phenylalanine (50%), aspartic acid (40%), and the methyl ester (10%) that promptly becomes free methyl alcohol (methanol) after ingestion - and their multiple breakdown products following exposure to heat or during storage are potentially neurotoxic and addictive (1 – 4).