aspartame
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- noun
- /æˈspɑrˌteɪm/
- Specialized
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aspartame
- In case you didn't know, aspartame is an artificial sweetener found in gum, candy, and NutraSweet.
- aspartame sweetener
- artificial sweetener aspartame
- diet foods with aspartame
But friendly, low sugar, all natural, no aspartame.
- But friendly, low sugar, all natural, no aspartame.
- Because they know that there is aspartame in it.
- You know, there's aspartame is actually very safe and people say what about cancer?
- And the researchers used normal amounts of aspartame that a normal human being who's drinking lots of diet soda would consume.
- I oh, sucralose and aspartame like of those, I don't think we've seen anything really move glucose response significantly.
- The monk fruit, the the sucralose and the aspartame did not.
- You know, aspartame, sucralose, sucralose is one of the worst.
- Sucralose appears to aspartame, not so much.
- Is it the salt on the it's like the aspartame.
- It also may increase the risk aspartame, specifically of certain types of breast cancers.
- But the aspartame and what we know now with sucralose is really bad.
Examples
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The soft drink industry widely uses aspartame to provide sweetness without calories.
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I would like to know more about aspartame and if it really makes one eat more.
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Regardless of whether you believe in the safety of aspartame in general,
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Yeah, I've had so many conversations about aspartame over the last six months since that World Health Organization came out.
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Case reports in humans show aspartame can injure adult nervous systems.
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Some products (Children's Tylenol chewable tablets) contain aspartame; avoid in patients with phenylketonuria.
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Many sugar-free products use aspartame as a calorie-free sweetener.
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Doctors recommend people with phenylketonuria to avoid aspartame due to its chemical composition.
Synonyms
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A substance added to food or drink to make it taste sweeter
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
aspartame = aspart + ame
The word is a specialized chemical coinage built from combining forms (related to aspartic acid and a methyl/amide element) and is not derivable by an average B1 learner from familiar English morphemes.
Etymology
Aspartame is a name made from the chemicals that form it: the amino acids aspartic acid and phenylalanine, plus a small methyl piece. So aspartame literally names the 'parts' it is made from, which helps explain why it is a lab-made, low-calorie sweetener rather than ordinary sugar.