{"id":12675,"date":"2023-06-30T12:53:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T07:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:16:19","slug":"what-is-aspartame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-aspartame\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Aspartame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Aspartame:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the world&#8217;s most commonly used <strong>low-calorie artificial sweetener<\/strong>, which is approximately 200 times sweeter than sucrose (common sugar).<\/li>\n<li>It was discovered by <strong>James M. Schlatter a chemist<\/strong>, in 1965, and was introduced to replace sucrose.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved aspartame for use in some dry foods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983.<\/li>\n<li>It is made up of two amino acids: <strong>aspartic acid and phenylalanine<\/strong>, which are naturally occurring amino acids in many protein-rich foods.<\/li>\n<li>In the body, <strong>aspartame is metabolised<\/strong> into its constituent components <strong>aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and a small amount of methanol.<\/strong>&#8211;<\/li>\n<li>It is used worldwide as a sugar substitute in thousands of <strong>foods and drinks, <\/strong>including cereals, <strong>sugar-free chewing gum,<\/strong> low-calorie fruit juices and diet sodas.<\/li>\n<li>Around 100 countries around the world, including India, permit the use of aspartame.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Metabolism?<\/h3>\n<p>Metabolism refers to the chemical processes that occur within an organism to maintain life. It involves a wide range of biochemical reactions that convert nutrients into energy, build and repair tissues, and regulate various biological functions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-health\/aspartame-sugar-additive-who-health-mpact-sugar-explained-8692751\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What is aspartame, the additive in your diet cola, which the WHO may declare as \u2018possibly carcinogenic\u2019?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspartame is the world&#8217;s most commonly used low-calorie artificial sweetener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}