Neotame is a versatile new food ingredient that can be used as a sweetener and flavor enhancer in foods and beverages. Neotame provides food and beverage manufacturers with greater flexibility and value in developing products that meet consumer expectations for great taste.

Neotame has a clean sweet taste like sugar. It is about 8,000 times sweeter than sugar on a weight basis, thus only very small amounts are needed in products (e.g., only about 6 mg of neotame is needed to sweeten a 12-ounce serving of beverage).

Neotame functions effectively in a wide range of foods and beverages. It can be used alone or as par t of a blend system with other non-nutritive or nutritive sweeteners to create new sweet tastes.

Neotame uniquely enhances the flavors of other ingredients, such as mint, in foods and beverages.