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saccharin (săk`ərĭn), C7H5NSO3, white, crystalline, aromatic compound. It was discovered accidentally by I. Remsen and C. Fahlberg in 1879. Pure saccharin tastes several hundred times as sweet as sugar. It is not readily soluble in water, but its sodium salt, which is sold commercially, dissolves readily. Saccharin has no nutritional value and is excreted unchanged by the body. It is used as a sweetener by persons who must limit their consumption of sugar. Despite the fact that saccharin causes cancer in laboratory rats, its ban was rescinded after a public outcry. In 1984 the World Health Organization suggested an intake limit of 2.5 mg/day per kg bodyweight. Other nonnutritive artificial sweeteners sweetener, artificial, substance used as a low-calorie sugar substitute. Saccharin , cyclamates , and aspartame have been the most commonly used artificial sweeteners. Saccharin, a coal-tar derivative three hundred times as sweet as sugar, was discovered in 1879. ..... Click the link for more information. include sodium cyclamate cyclamate (sī'kləmāt', –mət), any member of a group of salts of cyclamic acid (cyclohexanesulfamic acid). ..... Click the link for more information. and aspartame. saccharinSynthetic organic compound, C7H5NSO3, that is 200–700 times as sweet as cane sugar. The sodium or calcium salt of saccharin is widely used as a diet sweetener. Though approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory bodies around the world, its safety is controversial because it appears to be a weak carcinogen. See also aspartame. |
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The actual research on which this report was based was conducted with elderly people who drank lemonade sweetened either with glucose or with saccharin. Christian Burch's debut novel, The Manny Files (Atheneum), is being billed as "David Sedaris meets Mary Poppins," but in this case a spoonful of saccharin doesn't help the reading go down. I have been long troubled by the saccharin view of Japan as a happy society of productive keiretsu groups based on trust and mutual benefit, so I am pleased to see a study that documents a harsher reality that helps to explain why economic performance deteriorated. |
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