Question

Name an artificial sweetener whose use is limited in cold drinks.

Answer 1

Hint: As the name says sweetener, a type of sugar may be used but we must know about the calories as it plays an important part for human health. An artificial sweetener is the one which is artificially prepared in order to add sweetness to any substance.

Complete answer:
We have to know that aspartame is an artificial sweetener whose use is limited in cold drinks. This substance is added to stored food products to increase the shell life. Sometimes they are also used in cosmetics products. It is just used for sweetening; it does not have any nutritional value. Aspartame is used as an artificial sweetener since it has lower calories than sugar. Let us study the chemical structure of aspartame. Aspartame is generally a methyl ester of dipeptide of an amino acid which is not synthetic which is L-aspartic acid and L- phenylalanine. The units by which aspartame is made is on the left hand side is the aspartic acid part and on the other side is phenylalanine methyl ester part.

Aspartame is $100$ times as sweet as sucrose. It is used instead of sugar since it has a very low or negligible amount of calories. The use of this substance is limited to food products as it is unstable at cooking temperature, it usually decomposes at high temperature thus it is added in a smaller amount to stored food products.

Note:
We have to know that intake of artificial sweetener is generally a reason for weight gain, increased risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and may lead to heart diseases. The structure of aspartame is generally the same as sucralose. It tastes like sugar but has low calories in comparison to sugar. Sucralose is nothing but a derivative of sucrose.