Fundamentals
Basic points

Neotame vs Aspartame
Comparison
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Sweetness Potency

    Due to its remarkable sweetness potency neotame is used in foods and beverages in very small quantities. This property results in important benefits:

  • For consumers: extremely low exposure, considerably lower than any other sweetener (try this calculator). Potential exposure to neotame is lower than exposure to common flavoring ingredients (e.g. mint, vanilla or cinnamon).
  • For manufacturers: neotame is one of the lowest cost sources of sweetness available
Iso-sweet concentrations of neotame and sucrose
 (in water)
Sweetness potency of sweeteners currently marketed in the U.S.
(weight/weight comparison)
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Neotame:. . . 8,000

Sucralose: . . . ..600

Saccharin: . . .. .300

Aspartame: . . ...200

Acesulfame K: .. 200

sucrose: ...............1
(reference)                  

(Compare with this calculator)
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Maximum sweetness intensity

In a cola beverage, the maximum sweetness intensity (plateau) reached with neotame is at the sweetness level of a 15.1% sucrose solution.

In water, this plateau is at the sweetness level of a 13.4% sucrose solution.

Source: Neotame:The Next-Generation Sweetener, Food Technology, 2002, 56, 36-40.

Iso-sweet concentrations of neotame and sucrose
Sucrose to replace
Reducing factor to apply
Neotame iso-sweet
concentration
100 g/l
 6,000
16.6 mg/l
 80 g/l
 8,000
10 mg/l
Note:    

80 to 100 g/l of sugar are frequently found in foods and beverages

 

The reducing factor is not constant, but this is common to high-intensity sweeteners.

Generally for a first evaluation of neotame needs, a potency of about 8,000 is used.