Food Additive Sweetener Aspartame Aspartam

Aspartame
Aspartame with the chemical name of Aspartyl phenylalanine methyl ester, is a dipeptide being a combination of L-asparticacid and L-phenylalanine. It can be absorbed by human body completely and is harmless and quite safe to use. It tastes pure, cool and refresh, similar to sucrose however is 200 times as sweet with only l/200 of its energy so eating.

Aspartame constantly won' t cause any change in blood sugar levels nor cause high blood pressure or coronary disease. It is defined as sweetener of A (l) level by the Word Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It is ratified for use in more than 130 countries and regions throughout the world. It is widely added to, and mixed in with all kinds of foods, non-staple foods, and all sorts of soft drinks with the number reaching as many as 4, 000.

Characteristic of aspartame:
Sweet pure: The sweet approximate sucrose
High sweetness: 200 times of that of sucrose
Easy to let in water: 20 solubility of 27g
No heat: Don't be in the body metabolism, don't have heat, is fat people and old people diabetes ideal sweeteners
Collaborative principle: When using with other sweetener mixed can produce strong coordination effect, general concentration can increase the sweetness of 20% to 40%
High stability

Application of aspartame:
It's used as a food additive, a new kind of low Calorie, nutritive, intense sweetener.

Drinks:
Gas-filled soft drink Milk;
Non-gas-filled soft drink Beancurd Milk;
Alcohol-contained drink Coffee;
Fruit juice drink Fibre drink;
Fresh fruit juice Yogurt drink;
Hot cocoa mixed drink;
Instantly-dissolving drink;

Food:
All kinds of sweets;
Sweet jelly;
Cake Filling Jam;
Nutriment Ice cream;
Nutriment Chocolate;
Oatmeal Moon cakes
Others: All kinds of medicinal preparation

Packing of aspartame: 25kg carton or cardboard drums net each with plastic bag lining.