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Article: Alitame.
- Article from:
- Consumers' Research Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 1992
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Consumer interest in low-calorie food products has spurred food scientists and technologists to develop low- and non-caloric sweeteners and fat replacers. Sacharin has been available as a non-caloric sweetener for many years. It has been joined by aspartame (NutraSweet[R], Equal[R]), and more recently by acesulfame K (Sweet One[R], Sunette[R]). (See "Food For Thought," CR, September 1983 and January 1986 for aspartame, and May 1987 for acesulfame K.) Additional sweeteners are awaiting approval. Among them are sucralose (see "Food For Thought," CR, October 1990) and alitame.
Alitame, a white, crystalline, odorless powder, is intensely sweet. The composition of ...