Aspartame is a low-calorie, intensive sweetener, which was discovered by accident in 1965, and is produced from two essential amino acids, L-Aspartic acid and L-Phenylalanine.

Aspartame is two hundred times sweetener than Sucrose. Aspartame has been approved for human consumption in most countries in the world and is used in thousands of products, consumed by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.