Question

Arrange the following in decreasing order of the sweetening capacity.
Saccharin
Aspartame
Alitame
A.$1 > 2 > 3$
B.$3 > 2 > 1$
C.$3 > 1 > 2$
D.$2 > 1 > 3$

Answer 1

The three of the above sweeteners are called artificial sweeteners. Artificial sweeteners are those substances which do not contain natural sugar but are more effective in sweetness than natural sugar. Different artificial sweeteners have a different amount of sweetness.

Complete step by step answer:
Artificial sweeteners are the substitutes of sugar, which are produced from natural substances. They are beneficial for those who cannot take sugar or do not want to increase calories but want to have sweet things.
They are not high on calories and they are many times sweeter than actual sugar.
Saccharin: It does not contain any food energy and it is 3 to 400 times sweeter than the natural sugar. It is used to manufacture goods such as drinks, candies, cookies and medicines.
Aspartame: it is two hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. It is used in several beverages, products, cookies, baking etc. It is very low on calories. And we need a very low amount of aspartame as compared to the natural sugar to make us dish sweet.
Alitame: It is almost about two thousand times sweeter than the natural sugar we can say that it is almost ten times sweeter than aspartame and five times sweeter than saccharin
So from the above explanation, we can say which of the artificial sugar is sweeter than the other one, and we can decide the decreasing order of their sweetness.
That is Alitame is the sweetest then saccharin and the last one is aspartame.
Hence the correct option is C.

Note:
Natural sweeteners may be synthetic or naturally produced from other plant based substances. They affect positively to the body because they do not contain any calories there. Good for diabetic people because they do not contain real sugar.