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How do they come with these quantifications that something is 3000 sweeter than sugar. What does that even mean? Cool find though, I hope it works - in the past
by bigmattystyles 3y ago
How do they come with these quantifications that something is 3000 sweeter than sugar. What does that even mean? Cool find though, I hope it works - in the past it's seemed that while you may be able to fool your tongue, your stomach and brain are not so easily fooled.
- shawnz 3y agoI'm guessing they mean that it's detectable by humans at a 3000x lower concentration than sugar.
- trevortheblack 3y agoI imagine it's the same way they measure scoville units. It's sensitivity. How much of the substance is required for a group of people to consistently correctly guess which of two identical water glasses have been spiked with the substance. If it's like this then 1/3000 is required compared to sugar.
- az226 3y agoMaybe they used 1/3000 the quantity of sugar and people rated each sample to be equally sweet. Edit: it is based on weight compared to sucrose [1], so I happened to be right! [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC549512/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC549512/
- stubish 3y agoCould be the size of the molecule that will activate the relevant taste receptors, or the number of active molecules in a given volume of product, or given weight.
- CPLX 3y agoIt’s either 3000x sweeter by volume or number of calories per X amount of sweetness. I’m pretty sure it’s the latter but it doesn’t seem easy to Google.
- tsimionescu 3y agoIt's actually by weight, not by volume. As a fun note, by calories, aspartame would be infinitely sweeter than sugar, since it has 0 calories.
- fbdab103 3y agoJust as a point of reference, aspartame is considered to be 150-200x sweeter than sugar. 355ml Coke Cola has 39grams of sugar 355ml Diet Coke has 0.2grams of aspartame If the new compound was a 1-to-1 replacement, a putative Sweelin Coke would have 0.013grams (13mgs) of sweetener.