Question

Which artificial sweetener contains artificial chlorine?
(A) sucralose
(B) Alitame
(C) Saccharin
(D) Aspartame

Answer 1

Hint: The basic principles of chemistry are more influenced in every day of human life. These principles are much benefited by mankind. The chemicals used for cleaning purposes, chemicals used in food materials, as medicines, explosives, fuels, and electronic materials, etc. are all chemicals that come across at every moment in human life.

Complete step by step solution:
The important applications and interesting areas of chemistry in everyday life are medicines, food materials, and cleaning agents.
 Chemicals used in food materials for
(i) Food preservation
(ii) Enhancing food appeal, and
(iii) Adding nutritive value to food
There are more categories of food additives as follows:
-Food colors
-Flavors and sweeteners
-Fat emulsifiers and stabilizing agents
-Flour improvers
-Antioxidants
-Preservatives
-Nutritional supplements such as minerals, vitamins, and amino acids.
Artificial sweetening agents:
Natural sweeteners, for example, sucrose add calorie intake for many people. Hence people prefer to use artificial sweeteners. The first popular artificial sweetening agent is Ortho-sulphonamide, which is also called saccharin and used as a sweetening agent from 1879. This saccharin is 550 times as sweet as cane sugar.
Some chemicals used an artificial sweetening agent listed below,

Artificial sweetener	Sweetness value in comparison to cane sugar
Aspartame	100
Saccharin	550
Sucralose	600
Alitame	2000

In the above sweetening agents, Sucralose is a trichloro derivative of sucrose, which appears to be as sugar. It is stale at cooking temperature and does not provide calories. Hence, artificial sweeteners containing artificial chlorine are sucralose.

The correct answer is option A.

Note: Aspartame is roughly 100 times sweet as cane sugar and widely used artificial sweetener. It is a methyl ester of dipeptide formed from aspartic acid and phenylalanine and used for soft drinks and cold foods because this is unstable at cooking temperature. Alitame is more stable than Aspartame and high potency sweetener.