|
Sweetener
|
Relative
Sweetness
|
Taste Profile
|
Application
Stability
|
Relative Cost
in application
|
|
Acesulfame K
|
130 – 200
|
Rapidly preceptible
sweet taste,
bitter/metallic aftertaste.
Enhances and
intensifies flavours.
|
Good shelf life,
stable. Heat
resistant (cooking
and baking)
|
$$
|
|
Aspartame
|
160 – 220
|
Tastes like sugar, clean
taste with no aftertaste.
Enhances citrus fruit and.Other fruit flavours.
|
Not heat stable
|
$$$
|
|
Sodium
Cyclamate
|
30 – 50
|
Pleasant taste profile,Can enhance flavours
and mask bitterness.
|
Good shelf life,
stable in high and low temperatures
|
$$$
|
|
Sodium
Saccharinate
|
300 – 500
|
Slightly bitter/metallic
aftertaste.
|
Good shelf life,
highly stable
(cooking and
baking)
|
$
|
|
Sucralose
|
500 – 600
|
Made from sugar, sugar
like taste, clean lingering
sweetness.
|
Good stability
|
$$$$$
|
|
Neotame
|
7000 – 13000
|
Clean sweet taste like
sugar. Enhances fruit
and citrus flavours,
vanilla, mint and
chocolate.
|
Heat stable
|
$$
|
|
Aspartame-
Acesulfame
Salt
|
300 – 400
|
Sugar like taste with
clean full round
sweetness profile.
|
Very suitable for
chewing gum where
it provides long
lasting sweetness.
|
$$$$$
|
|
Stevia, Reb A
98%
|
200 – 400
|
Licorice aftertaste
|
Heat stable
|
$$$$$$$$$
|