SACCHARIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saccharin mean? 

• SACCHARIN (noun)
  The noun SACCHARIN has 1 sense:

1. a crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener

  Familiarity information: SACCHARIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SACCHARIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("saccharin" is a kind of...):

sweetener; sweetening (something added to foods to make them taste sweeter)

 Context examples 

Mucoadhesive oral wound rinse consists of purified water, glycerin, benzyl alcohol, sodium saccharin, carbomer homopolymer A, potassium hydroxide, citric acid, polysorbate 60 and phosphoric acid.

(Mucoadhesive Oral Wound Rinse, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the main discoveries is that the only nonnutritive and noncaloric sweeteners that significantly alter microbiota are saccharin and sucralose, although their impact on human health is unknown and further research should be carried out in order to confirm said alteration.

(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)

The main goal of this review has been to critically discuss the evidence supporting the effects of nonnutritive sweeteners (NNSs), both synthetic sweeteners (acesulfame K, aspartame, cyclamate, saccharin, neotame, advantame, and sucralose) and natural sweeteners (NSs; thaumatin, steviol glucosides, monellin, neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, and glycyrrhizin) and nutritive low‑calorie sweeteners (polyols or sugar alcohols) on the composition of microbiota in the human gut.

(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)