Aspartame:
Aspartame is a low-calorie sweetener which is about 200 times sweeter than sugar.
It is up taken by organism but because of high sweetness grade, the quantity of the Aspartame used is very low, therefore it can be considered as free from calorie. It's taste is very close to sugar. It accentuates and intensifies fruits taste, especially the citrus fruits. The calories can be reduced in drinks and products by replacing sugar with Aspartame.
Small quantity of Aspartame with 1/10 calories provides the same sweetness grade as a tea spoon of sugar with 16 calories. Aspartame is used for sweetening different products, drinks.
At the moment it is applied with the following famous products:
- soda drinks
- juices
- pudding, feeding agent for cakes, jelly
- desserts and gravy
- common sweeteners (tablets and powders)
- chewing gum
- fruit juices
- yoghurt
- frozen desserts
- Jams, fruit jelly
- pharmaceutics
- corn breakfast
- confectionery
- dry drinks - multivitamins - mouth refreshers
| Items of Analysis |
Specification |
Results |
| Appearance |
White granular |
Pass |
| Identification |
Meets the requirements |
Pass |
| Assay (On dry basis) |
98.0%~102.0% |
99.5% |
| Specific rotation |
+14.5°~+16.5° |
+15.7° |
| Transmittance |
NLT 95% |
99.1% |
| Loss on drying |
NMT 4.5% |
2.7% |
| Heavy metals (as Pb) |
NMT 10PPm |
NMT 10PPm |
| PH date |
4.5~6.0 |
4.8 |
| Arsenic |
NMT 3PPm |
NMT 3PPm |
| Residue on ignition |
NMT 0.2% |
0.05% |
| Organic volatile impurities |
Meets the requirements |
Pass |
| 5-Benzyl-3, 6-dioxo-2-piperazineacetic acid |
NMT 1.5% |
NMT 1.5% |
| Other related substances |
NMT 2.0% |
NMT 2.0% |
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