Aspartame is a low-calorie intensive sweetener discovered by accident in 1965, with two constituent amino acids,L-Aspartic Acid and L-Phenylalanine,both commonly found in daily food.Aspartame is two hundred times sweeter than Sucrose. Aspartame has been approved for human consumption in most countries in the worid and it is used in thousands of products,consumed by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

Aspartame is used in the manufacture of many sugar-free, low calorie and dietary products, such as:
1)Beverages: carbonated and still soft drinks, fruit-juices and fruit syrups.
2)Table-top: compressed sweeteners, powdered sweeteners (spoon-for-spoon), sweetener sachets and liquid table-top sweeteners.
3)Dry mixes: hot and cold chocolate and beverage mixes and instant desserts.
4)Dairy: yoghurt, frozen novelties and desserts.
5)Confectionery: chewing gum, boiled sweets, mints, chocolate, gums and jellies.
6)Pharmaceutical: tablets, pastilles,sugar-free syrups, powdered mixes and effervescent tablets.