Related Experiment Videos
On the sweetness of N-(trifluoroacetyl)aspartame
1Laboratoire SEESIB-CNRS-UMR 6504, Departement de Chimie, Université Blaise Pascal-Clermont-Ferrand II, Aubière, France.
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
|October 31, 2000
Abstract:
A panel of tasters has found that the N-trifluoroacetyl derivative of aspartame is five times less sweet than the parent compound, contrary to the tenet in the literature, but consistent with sweet receptor models which require this nitrogen to exist in protonated form.