A little-known artificial sweetener that’s up to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar is now used in most popular flavored e-cigarettes — even though it is not listed on labels and is only FDA-approved for food, a new study found.

Neotame was detected in 57 of 73 flavored vaping products often marketed to kids and teens and had an average content nearly five times higher than in a mint candy, a study conducted by researchers from Yale School of Medicine and Duke University found.

Little is known about the health effects of inhaling the potent, no-calorie alternative, which was created by NutraSweet and is also known as Newtame, and current regulations do not limit its use, according to the June 2 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3

The researchers set

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