Off Brand Equivalent Of Diet Dr. Peppers

The purpose of the experiment was to determine whether or not Diet. Dr Choice, the off brand equivalent of Diet Dr. Pepper, affects the growth of an organism, and at what dosage said effect would occur at. During the experiment radish seeds are exposed to varying dosages of Diet Dr. Pepper in order to determine how an organism would to varying amounts of exposure to the chemicals within Diet Dr. Pepper. Due to lab restraints the organism used during this experiment was radish seeds due to their quick germination period making the, the ideal test subject for a classroom setting with limited time and resources. The substance tested within this experiment was Diet Dr. Choice because it is the off brand equivalent of Diet Dr. Pepper and contains the same levels of the chemicals caffeine and aspartame as the the actual brand named …show more content…
This chemical is believed by many scientists to be a carcinogen, meaning that it either causes cancer to form or it aids in the development of cancer (American Cancer Society, 2014). In 2006 and 2007 at the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research an experiment was conducted to determine whether or not the ingestion APM (aspartame) would result in the occurrence of cancer, which would indicate that APM is a carcinogen. This experiment was conducted on Sprague Dawley rats rats throughout their lifespan and exposure began when the rats were eight weeks old. The data collected showed a statistically significant dose-related increase incidence of cancer among both male and female rats when compared to the control subjects who not exposed to APM (Soffritti, Padovani, Tibaldi, Falcioni, Manservisi, and Belpoggi, 2014). This indicates that APM is carcinogen and therefore at high dosages can have a detrimental effect on the overall health of an organism, while at lower dosages elicit little to no response from the