Definitions
an artificial sweetener made from aspartic acid; used as a calorie-free sweetener
Word origin
Commercial name, from aspartic. The -ame is perhaps because aspartame is an amide. Compare aspartamine.
Used in a sentence
“Though reluctant to further expose him to aspartame, I had little trouble persuading Jamie's mother to carry out a double-blind trial in order to more rigorously document her son's aberrant response to aspartame.”
“Caramel colors and aspartame Phosphoric acid, potassium Natural flavors, of course caffeine And now I'm jonesin' for MSG”
“Aspartame, sold under the brand NutraSweet, was discovered accidentally by a scientist at Searle in 1965 who was testing new drugs for gastric ulcers and licked his fingers before picking up a piece of paper.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Diet sweetener”9 letters
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