Survey of High Intensity Sweeteners in Asia Pacific Edition (2) @ http://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/279516-survey-of-high-intensity-sweeteners-in-asia-pacific-edition-2.html
There are nine commonly used High Intensity Sweeteners (HIS) in Asia Pacific area, which are saccharin, cyclamate, acesulfame-K, stevia sweetener, aspartame, sucralose, glycyrrhizin, alitame and neotame. All of them are at least 30 times sweeter than sucrose, among which neotame has the highest sweetness: 8,000 times. Stevia sweetener and glycyrrhizin are natural, while the rest are artificial.
These HIS can be grouped into generations according to their history of usage. Among the different opinions on how they are grouped, there is a popular one: the first generation is cyclamate, glycyrrhizin and saccharin, since they have long been used by human beings; the second generation is acesulfame-K and aspartame; the third generation includes alitame, neotame, sucralose and stevia sweetener.
