Which of the following chemicals can be added for sweetening of food
items at cooking temperature and does not provide calories?
1. Sucrose
2. Glucose
3. Aspartame
4. Sucralose
Aspartame is roughly 100 times as sweet as cane sugar, it is a methyl ester of dipeptide formed from aspartic acid and phenylalanine. The use of aspartame is limited to cold foods and soft drinks because it is unstable at cooking temperature.
Sucralose is a trichloro derivative of sucrose. Its appearance and taste are like sugar. It is stable at cooking temperature. It does not provide calories.
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