Aspartame is an artificial sweetener sold in the market. It consists of amino acids and provides calories like other amino acids. Yet it is used as a lowcalorie sweetening agent in food items. What is the basis of this use ?

• A. Aspartame is as sweet as table sugar, but unlike table sugar,it is not readily oxidized in human body due to lack of requisite enzymes
• B. When aspartame is used in food processing,the sweet taste remains, but it becomes resistant to oxidation
• C. Aspartame is as sweet as sugar, but after ingestion into the body,it is convertedinto metabolites that that yield no calories
• D. Aspartame is several times sweeter than table sugar,hence food items made with small quantities of aspartame yield fewer calories on oxidation