Title: Alternative Sweeteners

Aspartame-Acesulfame: Twinsweet 495
Figure 7 Shelf-life of cinnamon-flavored chewing gum. Aspartame-acesulfame (Twinsweet)
retains sweetness on storage longer than an equisweet, equimolar physical mixture
of aspartame with acesulfame-K (APM:AceK blend). (From Ref. 8.)
ener. Such an addition is not always easy, particularly where aspartame is involved.
Although the addition of aspartame to fruit-flavored candy is rather
straightforward, nonacid flavors such as mint can create a problem because sufficient
aspartame cannot always be dispersed homogeneously throughout the hot
candy mass (9). This difficulty vanishes when Twinsweet is used because it disperses
directly in the hot mass to give products with a fuller, more sugarlike
sweetness and better flavor impact than achieved with an equisweet blend of
sweeteners.
D. Chewable Tablets and Tabletop Sweetener Tablets
A number of the advantages of aspartame-acesulfame already cited combine to
make the salt well suited to tabletting processes. The qualities of Twinsweet
that contribute to mechanically stable, homogeneous powder mixes are directly
relevant to the mixing of powdered ingredients before tabletting. The absence of
hygroscopicity means that the salt flows reliably and will not change its flow
characteristics on exposure to moist air. At the same time, the relative chemical
stability of crystalline Twinsweet leads to a long shelf-life for tablets by minimizing
any degradative reactions with flavors or excipients. Finally, rapid dissolution