ASPARTAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aspartame mean? 

• ASPARTAME (noun)
  The noun ASPARTAME has 1 sense:

1. an artificial sweetener made from aspartic acid; used as a calorie-free sweetener

  Familiarity information: ASPARTAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASPARTAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An artificial sweetener made from aspartic acid; used as a calorie-free sweetener

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("aspartame" is a kind of...):

sweetener; sweetening (something added to foods to make them taste sweeter)

 Context examples 

Researchers fed groups of rats diets high in sugar or artificial sweeteners including aspartame and acesulfame potassium.

(Artificial Sweeteners Can Still Lead to Obesity, Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The main goal of this review has been to critically discuss the evidence supporting the effects of nonnutritive sweeteners (NNSs), both synthetic sweeteners (acesulfame K, aspartame, cyclamate, saccharin, neotame, advantame, and sucralose) and natural sweeteners (NSs; thaumatin, steviol glucosides, monellin, neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, and glycyrrhizin) and nutritive low‑calorie sweeteners (polyols or sugar alcohols) on the composition of microbiota in the human gut.

(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)