aspartame

aspartame
aspartame commercial name of an artificial sweetener, 1973, from aspartic acid (1836), formed irregularly from asparagine (1813), a compound found in asparagus, beet-root, etc., from ASPARAGUS (Cf. asparagus) + chemical suffix -INE (Cf. -ine) (2). The reason for -ame is unknown.

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