Infrared Spectroscopy Checks on Diet Drinks
Sugar is sweet but aspartame is sweeter, permitting it to be used as a low-calorie sugar substitute in diet soft drinks and other foods. However, some people believe that aspartame’s metabolic by-products strike a sour note and can cause health problems if too much is ingested. Hence, there is a need for a rapid, simple and reproducible method to determine its concentration in foodstuffs.
Recently, a group of researchers from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and from Hankyong National...
Photonics Spectra, March 2008