Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Why is there SiO2 in Equal (Nutrasweet) packets? Message-ID: <629@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Sun, 18-Mar-84 15:39:45 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.629 Posted: Sun Mar 18 15:39:45 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 01:17:59 EST References: <260@ihuxu.UUCP> <776@dciem.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 12 Lactose (milk sugar) is used as the main carrier for aspartame; the SiO2 is added, just as it is often added to salt, as an agent to help it flow freely. There's much less SiO2 than lactose in a packet of Equal. Equal is the brand name for the combination of lactose and NutraSweet in packet and table form. NutraSweet is an ingredient in Equal, and it a trademark for the generic chemical "aspartame." -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA