E951

Aspartame

E Number E951
Name Aspartame
Class Sweeteners
Groups
Additional details Sweetener
Origin Synthetic
Common applications Chewing gums, soft drinks, refreshments, juices, dairy products, pastry, cookies, and many other products labelled as “0% sugar”, “sugar free”, “light”, “zero”, “low calories”, pharmaceutical products and protein shakes
Observations At middle-long term may be carcinogenic
Evaluation To avoid

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Conditions of use in food categories

Category Number Category Name Maximum Level (mg/l or mg/kg as appropriate) Details Restrictions/exceptions
01.4 Flavoured fermented milk products including heat-treated products1 000only energy-reduced products or with no added sugar
03 Edible ices800only energy-reduced or with no added sugar
04.2.2 Fruit and vegetables in vinegar, oil, or brine300only sweet-sour preserves of fruit and vegetables
04.2.3 Canned or bottled fruit and vegetables1 000only fruit energy-reduced or with no added sugar
04.2.4.1 Fruit and vegetable preparations excluding compote1 000only energy-reduced
04.2.5.1 Extra jam and extra jelly as defined by Directive 2001/113/EC1 000only energy-reduced jams jellies and marmalades
04.2.5.2 Jam, jellies and marmalades and sweetened chestnut puree as defined by Directive 2001/113/EC1 000only energy-reduced jams, jellies and marmalades
04.2.5.3 Other similar fruit or vegetable spreads1 000only dried-fruit-based sandwich spreads, energy-reduced or with no added sugar
05.1 Cocoa and chocolate products as covered by Directive 2000/36/EC2 000only energy-reduced or with no added sugar
05.2 Other confectionery including breath refreshening microsweets2 000only cocoa or dried fruit-based, energy-reduced or with no added sugar
05.2 Other confectionery including breath refreshening microsweets1 000only cocoa, milk, dried fruit or fat-based sandwich spreads, energy-reduced or with no added sugar
05.2 Other confectionery including breath refreshening microsweets2 000only starch-based confectionery energy-reduced or with no added sugar
05.2 Other confectionery including breath refreshening microsweets1 000only confectionery with no added sugar
05.2 Other confectionery including breath refreshening microsweets6 000only breath-freshening micro-sweets, with no added sugar
05.2 Other confectionery including breath refreshening microsweets2 000only strongly flavoured freshening throat pastilles with no added sugar
05.3 Chewing gum2 500If E 950, E 951, E 957, E 959 and E 961 are used in combination in chewing gum, the maximum level for each is reduced proportionallyonly with added sugar or polyols, as flavour enhancer
05.3 Chewing gum5 500only with no added sugar
05.4 Decorations, coatings and fillings, except fruit based fillings covered by category 4.2.42 000only starch-based confectionery energy-reduced or with no added sugar
05.4 Decorations, coatings and fillings, except fruit based fillings covered by category 4.2.41 000only confectionery with no added sugar
05.4 Decorations, coatings and fillings, except fruit based fillings covered by category 4.2.42 000only cocoa or dried fruit-based, energy-reduced or with no added sugar
05.4 Decorations, coatings and fillings, except fruit based fillings covered by category 4.2.4350only sauces
06.3 Breakfast cereals1 000only breakfast cereals with a fibre content of more than 15 %, and containing at least 20 % bran, energy-reduced or with no added sugar
07.2 Fine bakery wares1 000only essoblaten — wafer paper
07.2 Fine bakery wares1 700only fine bakery products for special nutritional uses
09.2 Processed fish and fishery products including mollusks and crustaceans300only sweet-sour preserves and semi-preserves of fish and marinades of fish, crustaceans and molluscs
11.4.1 Table-top sweeteners in liquid formquantum satis 
11.4.2 Table-top sweeteners in powder formquantum satis 
11.4.3 Table-top sweeteners in tabletsquantum satis 
12.4 Mustard350 
12.5 Soups and broths110only energy-reduced soups
12.6 Sauces350 
12.7 Salads and savoury based sandwich spreads350only Feinkostsalat
13.2 Dietary foods for special medical purposes defined in Directive 1999/21/EC (excluding products from food category 13.1.5)1 000 
13.3 Dietary foods for weight control diets intended to replace total daily food intake or an individual meal (the whole or part of the total daily diet)800 
14.1.3 Fruit nectars as defined by Directive 2001/112/EC and vegetable nectars and similar products600only energy-reduced or with no added sugar
14.1.4 Flavoured drinks600only energy-reduced or with no added sugar
14.2.1 Beer and malt beverages600only alcohol-free beer or with an alcohol content not exceeding 1,2 % vol; “Bière de table/Tafelbier/Table beer” (original wort content less than 6 %) except for “Obergäriges Einfachbier”; Beers with a minimum acidity of 30 milli-equivalents expressed as NaOH; Brown beers of the “oud bruin” type
14.2.1 Beer and malt beverages25only energy-reduced beer
14.2.3 Cider and perry600 
14.2.8 Other alcoholic drinks including mixtures of alcoholic drinks with non-alcoholic drinks and spirits with less than 15 % of alcohol600 
15.1 Potato-, cereal-, flour- or starch-based snacks500 
15.2 Processed nuts500 
16 Desserts excluding products covered in categories 1, 3 and 41 000only energy-reduced or with no added sugar
17.1 Food supplements supplied in a solid form including capsules and tablets and similar forms, excluding chewable forms2 000 
17.2 Food supplements supplied in a liquid form600 
17.3 Food supplements supplied in a syrup-type or chewable form5 500