Advantame - 'The Next Generation Sweetener'

Sweeteners/ Sugar Substitutes are used to impart sweet taste to food products without much calorie contribution. These are generally used for the Diabetic people, calorie conscious citizens. Some of them are Saccharine, Sucralose, Aspartame, Stevia, Cyclamate etc..

But, after clinical studies, it was proved that many of these artificial sweeteners are carcinogenic and some can be harmful to our kidneys. 

So in this need of hour, Ajinomoto came with the 'Next Generation Sweetener.'

Advantame is an exciting new ultrahigh potency sweetener from Ajinomoto. Advantame is about 20,000 times sweeter than sucrose and has a clean sweet sugar-like taste.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Advantame, an innovative new sweetener, for general use in foods and beverages. Due to its excellent taste and functionality along with very low cost in use, advantame can be used to partially replace sugar, high fructose corn syrup or other high potency sweeteners. Since advantame blends well with caloric and non-caloric sweeteners, it provides food and beverage companies with an opportunity to reduce calories and manage their sweetness costs. Advantame extends sweetness duration in chewing gum and improves the sweetness profile of many confections. Maintaining the same sweet taste profile with less caloric sweetener can now be achieved with Advantame.

Advantame is also FEMA GRAS approved (FEMA #: 4716) as an artificial flavor. The flavors of Dairy drinks, Frozen Desserts, Beverages, and Chewing Gum can be enhanced with low levels of Advantame.

Reference: http://www.advantame.com/

What is the difference between Drying and Dehydration?

Generally, we use both the terms interchangeably.

Sometimes, it is mentioned that the process of removal of moisture in controlled manner is dehydration and if uncontrolled then it is drying.

or

Removal of moisture by natural process like with sun rays then it is drying and if done with machines then dehydration..    and many more...


But, as per the words tell us,

We can say that

Drying is the process in which we make the product dry irrespective of its solvent like if we are drying any fruit then it is removal of moisture (water which is solvent here) and if we are removing other solvent like alcohol from solution then also we can call this process as drying.

And the word Dehydration contains hydra means related to water. So, Dehydration means in particular removal of water or moisture .

Again, it is not the full proof difference and don't have any reference, so we can use these words interchangeably !!!