Food additives data book - wordpres

Sweeteners 914
NAME: Aspartame
CATEGORY: Sweetener/ Nutritive additive/ Flavour enhancer
FOOD USE: Baked goods (desserts, dessert toppings, dessert mixes, topping mixes, fillings, filling mixes)/ Bakery
products (encapsulated aspartame)/ Bakery mixes (encapsulated aspartame)/ Dairy products (dry mixes
for dairy products, frozen desserts)/ Beverages (beverage concentrates, tea beverages, beverage mixes)/
Cereals and cereal products/ Soft drinks/ Sugars, sugar preserves and confectionery (table use,
confectionery, sugar-free syrups, jams and jellies, purées and sauces, confectionery glazes)/ Other
(pharmaceutical tablets, chewable vitamins, chewing gum, emulsions, breath mints, breath-freshener
products)/ Vinegar, pickles and sauces (salad dressings, condiments)/ Fruit, vegetable and nut products
(peanut and other nut spreads)
SYNONYMS: CFSAN Aspartame/ CAS 22839-47-0/ EINECS 245-261-3/ Aspartylphenylalanine methyl ester/ N-L-aaspartyl-L-phenylalanine-1-methyl
ester/ 3-Amino-N-(a-carboxyphenethyl)succinamic acid N-methyl
ester/ SC 18862/ Tri-Sweet/ APM/ Usal/ Cauderal/ Pouss-Suc/ HSC Aspartame/ Canderel/ Equal/
NutraSweet/ Sanecta
FORMULA: HOOC CH2 CH(NH2)CONH CH(CH2 C6H5)COO CH3
MOLECULAR MASS: 294.31
ALTERNATIVE FORMS: a-(L)-Asp-(L)-Phe-OMe/ a-(L)-Asp-(L)-Met-OMe/ a-(L)-Asp-(L)-Phe-OEtb / D,L-Ama-(L)-Phe-OMec /
a-(L)-Asp-(L)-Tyr-OMe
PROPERTIES AND APPEARANCE: White crystalline powder. Odourless. Clean sweet, agreeable taste (160 to 200 times sucrose);
prolonged sweet aftertaste; no bitter or metallic aftertaste; fair mouthfeel
MELTING RANGE IN °C: 246–248
PURITY %: 98–102% assay