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Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol 9, Issue 1 44-47, Copyright © 1990 by American College of Nutrition

CLINICAL TRIAL

Similarity assessment and attribute scaling of sucrose and aspartame in grape drink

L. Christensen and S. Archer
Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843.

The present study investigated the perception of sweetness of aspartame in comparison to various concentrations of sucrose. Twenty-seven subjects were randomly assigned to taste a chilled or room temperature Kool-Aid beverage sweetened with either aspartame or five different concentrations of sucrose. Subjects assessed the perceived similarity in sweetness of an aspartame-aspartame pair and five different aspartame-sucrose pairings and rated each beverage on five bipolar adjectives. Analysis of the similarity ratings revealed that subjects did not perceive the pairs of beverages to differ in perceived sweetness. Analysis of the adjective ratings revealed that aspartame and the lower sucrose concentrations were perceived as being less sweet and more sour than the higher sucrose concentrations.




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