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Infrared Spectroscopy Checks on Diet Drinks

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Hank Hogan

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 University in Ansung, South Korea, demonstrated that multibounce attenuated total reflectance Fourier...Read full article

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    Published: March 2008
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