Product >> Pharmaceutical >> Excipients >> Neotame
Properties:
- Similar to aspartame
- 7000 to 8000 times sweeter than sucrose
- Chemical modification to the structure make it 30-40 times sweeter than aspartame
- Used in Medicines, beverages and soy based nutritionally fortified products
- Rapidly metabolized by hydrolysis of the methyl ester present throughout the body
- Yields de-esterified neotame, the major metabolite, and an insignificant amount methanol
- Yields de-esterified neotame, the major metabolite, and an insignificant amount methanol