of sweeteners to minimize the harmful effects of sugar. Sugar alternatives and substitutes such as Aspartame, Saccharin and Sucralose have long been used in the food and beverage industry. But the problem with most of these sweeteners is that they are artificial and unhealthy, as they’ve been scientifically documented to
the mouth after a meal Introduction Sugar-free chewing gums are healthy alternative gums, as it gives healthy effects on the salivary flow rate and acids that surrounds the mouth after meals rather than gums that contain “unhealthy” sucrose. The sweetener that is used commonly in sugar-free chewing gum is Xylitol. It has been an essential healthy substitute that is also safe to use for children. “1In fact Xylitol has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration since the 1960’s” (Shikhar Kumar
The novel sweetener aspartame was discovered in the United States in 1965 (Romanovski, 2009). James Schlatter, a chemist and a medical researcher, working for G.D. Searle and Co., was developing a new anti-ulcer treatment. One of the possibilities was to find an inhibitor of the gastrointestinal secretory hormone gastrin. Because the drug discovery at that time was a trial-and-error method, Schlatter had to synthesise C-terminal tetrapeptide (Trp-Met-Asp-Phe-NH2), usually found in the stomach, in