Aspartame is a synthetic and low-calorie sweetener and is used as an active ingredient in consumer foods, beverages, soft drinks, breath mints, sugar free chewing gum, cocoa mixes, frozen desserts, chewable vitamin supplements, milk drinks, cereals, pharmaceutical drugs and supplements, tabletop sweeteners and diet sodas.

• Identity test: Passes
• FTIR: Conforms to standard
• Melting point: 240 to 255 °C
• Optical rotation: +12,5 to +17,5° (4%, 15 N formic acid)
• Residue on ignition: ≤0,2%
• Loss on drying: ≤4,5%
• Heavy metal and arsenic: ≤10 ppm and ≤3 ppm

Aspartame is a non-nutritive sweetener and dipeptide ester about 160 times sweeter than sucrose in aqueous solution.

Clear to slightly hazy colourless to very faint yellow solution at 250 mg plus 5 ml in 0,5 M Hydrochloric acid.