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C14H18N2O5
294.3 g/mol
Food Additive

Aspartame

CAS22839-47-0EC245-261-3
Category
Food Additive
Compound Class
Peptide
Primary Use
non-nutritive sweetener and flavor enhancer

Aspartame is a synthetic, non-nutritive sweetener and flavor enhancer. It is about 200 times sweeter than sugar and is used as a packaged food additive and in tabletop products.

non-nutritive sweetenerflavor enhancerpackaged food additive

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Identifiers
IUPAC Name

(3S)-3-amino-4-[[(2S)-1-methoxy-1-oxo-3-phenylpropan-2-yl]amino]-4-oxobutanoic acid

InChIKey

IAOZJIPTCAWIRG-QWRGUYRKSA-N

SMILES

COC(=O)[C@H](CC1=CC=CC=C1)NC(=O)[C@H](CC(=O)O)N

Synonyms (66)
  • E-951
  • Aspartam [INN-French]
  • Aspartame (NF/INN)
  • Aspartame, European Pharmacopoeia (EP)
  • Aspartame, United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
  • Aspartamo [INN-Spanish]
  • Aspartamum [INN-Latin]
  • ASPARTAME [MART.]
  • Aminosweet
  • Asp-Phe methyl ester
  • Asp-phe-ome
  • Aspartam
  • Aspartame (e951)
  • Aspartame CRS
  • Aspartame, L,L-alpha-
  • Aspartamo
  • Aspartamum
  • Aspartylphenylalanine, Methyl
  • Canderel
  • Dipeptide sweetener
  • Equal
  • Gold, Hermesetas
  • H-Asp-Phe-OMe
  • Ins no.951
  • Methyl Aspartylphenylalanine
  • Methyl aspartylphenylalanate
  • Nutrasweet
  • Pal Sweet
  • Palsweet Diet
  • Sanecta
  • Sladex
  • Sweet dipeptide
  • TriSweet
  • Zero-cal
  • aspartame
  • c-mer