People with diabetes cannot use normal natural sugars and have to use sugar substitutes, artificial sweeteners. Aspartame concerned me the most among many other artificial sweeteners in terms of its complexity and danger it imposes on people, who know no alternative for it. It is considered one of the most dangerous for health, and is even banned in some countries like Japan (Arizona Center Of Advanced Medicine). Having seen my grandmother struggle from diabetes and having learnt about the artificial sweeteners from my family members, who come from the medical field, my interest in this area was established early on. For my investigation,, I started reading the labels on the sugar substitutes (Splenda, Equal, etc.) that my grandmother uses.