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Saccharin is an artificial, or non-nutritive, sweetener usually sold with the brand name Sweet'N Low (compare prices) or Sugar Twin. Saccharin is 200 to 700 times sweeter than table sugar so very little of it is needed to sweeten foods.
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Saccharin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saccharin is an artificial sweetener. The basic substance, benzoic sulfinide, has effectively no food energy and is much sweeter than sucrose, but has an unpleasant bitter or metallic aftertaste, esp...
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The FDA announcewd March 9, 1977, that the use of saccharin in foods and beverages would be banned because the artifricial sweetener has been found to cause malignant bladder tumors in laboratory animals.
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Congress responded by passing the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act, which placed a two-year moratorium on any ban of the sweetener while additional safety studies were conducted. The law also required that any foods containing saccharin must carry a label that reads "Use of this product may be hazardous to your health.
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When female rats were fed a diet containing 5% saccharin, the concentration of saccharin in the plasma and organs was greater than for the male rats fed the 5% diet, particularly the concentration in the kidney and urinary bladder.
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Saying that numerous studies indicate that saccharin may cause cancer, a group of scientists is urging the government to keep that artificial sweetener on its list of cancer ... Their statement opposes efforts by the diet-food industry to remove the cancer label from saccharin and the foods in which it is used.
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A simple general rule about additives is to avoid sodium nitrite, saccharin, caffeine, olestra, acesulfame K, and artificial coloring. Not only are they among the most questionable additives, but they are used primarily in foods of low nutritional value.
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With the advent of methods of processing, ways of transporting food long distances, chemical fertilisers, and the predominance of convenience foods, our food lost a lot of its nutritional value. It became contaminated with ... Artificial sweeteners like aspartame and saccharin, or any foods/drinks containing them.
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www.frot.co.nz/dietnet/basics/whole_foods.htm
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....President Clinton signed legislation to remove the warning label that had been required on saccharin-sweetened foods and beverages.(Brief Article); Magazine article from: The Food Institute Report ;
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