Which low-calorie sweetener has the chemical formula C₁₄H₁₈N₂O₅ that is two hundred times sweeter than sugar?

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SSC CGL 2022 Tier-I Official Paper (Held On : 09 Dec 2022 Shift 3)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Aspartame.

Key Points

Aspartame is an artificial non-saccharide sweetener 200 times sweeter than sucrose and is commonly used as a sugar substitute in foods and beverages.
It is a methyl ester of the aspartic acid/phenylalanine dipeptide.
Chemical formula: C₁₄ H₁₈ N₂ O₅ .

Additional Information

Saccharin
- Saccharin often used in the form of sodium saccharin, is an artificial sweetener with effectively no nutritional value.
- It is about 550 times as sweet as sucrose but has a bitter or metallic aftertaste, especially at high concentrations.
- Saccharin is used to sweeten products such as drinks, candies, cookies, especially for masking the bitter taste of some medicines.
Sucralose
- It is a general-purpose sweetener that can be found in a variety of foods including baked goods, beverages, chewing gum, gelatins, and frozen dairy desserts.
- It is heat stable, meaning that it stays sweet even when used at high temperatures during baking, making it suitable as a sugar substitute in baked goods.
Neotame
- The safety studies found that long-term neotame consumption is associated with low body weight and low body weight gain, although this has long been considered the result of low food consumption