Sustainability
AminoSweet® and the Environment
Choosing foods and drinks with AminoSweet Aspartame is not only beneficial for your health, but also has significant advantages for the environment.
To make the sugar that we eat, the raw materials, including sugar beet, sugar cane and corn starch, are harvested and shipped for refining. The refining process entails extracting the sugar from the crop by crushing, chopping or grinding and treatment with water. High fructose corn syrup undergoes an additional step in which the atoms within the molecules are re-arranged. The raw sugars then undergo further processing, depending on the final use that is required.
AminoSweet is made using a fermentation process to produce amino acids from a feedstock of molasses (a thick syrup from sugar cane or beet), soy and corn. The amino acids are then combined to form AminoSweet crystals. These crystals are purified and converted into finished AminoSweet.
Less Bulk
AminoSweet is almost 200 times sweeter than sugar, which means that much less
is required to sweeten foods and drinks. As a result:
- Less packaging is needed
- Emissions from manufacture and transportation are reduced
- Natural resources are conserved
- The carbon footprint is reduced
- Less space is required for storage
Less Bulk
Less Chemicals
Less Water
Less Land
Easier Storage
Less Fertiliser and Pesticide
The agrochemical consumption associated with AminoSweet is between 0.4 and 1%
of that stemming from sugar. It is 0.4% when compared to sugar from cane, 0.9%
when compared to high fructose corn syrup, and 1% when compared to sugar from
beet.
The table below shows how many pounds (lb) of agrochemicals are used to
produce the amount of sweetness equivalent to that in 100,000lb of sugar:
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Less Chemicals
Less Water
Less Land
Easier Storage
Less Water
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The amount of water used to produce AminoSweet is less then 2% of that used in
the production of sugar. The following tables show water consumption in
AminoSweet production as a percentage of that used for other sources of
sweetness, and the amount of water used (in millions of gallons) to make the
amount of sweetness equivalent to that in 100,000lb of sugar:
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Less Bulk
Less Chemicals
Less Water
Less Land
Easier Storage
Less Land
Much lower amounts of arable land are required to produce AminoSweet, meaning
that the average productivity of the land is greatly increased.
The farming of sugar impacts more heavily on the land, with topsoil being
lifted with the crop during harvest. This causes extra carbon emissions during
manufacture as it adds to weight during transportation and uses further
resources during cleaning.
AminoSweet can satisfy the demand for sweetness using much less land and
causing much less soil erosion.
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Less Bulk
Less Chemicals
Less Water
Less Land
Easier Storage
Easier Storage
AminoSweet has a longer storage life than sugar, which means that it's less
prone to degradation and that wastage is decreased.
It is also much less prone to vermin, with reduced need for vermin control,
lessening the inputs from another manufacturing process.
Similarly, no temperature controlled storage facilities are required for
AminoSweet, unlike some sweetener systems, so energy consumption is reduced.
Less Bulk
Less Chemicals
Less Water
Less Land
Easier Storage