Synthetic, non nutritive sweetener that is 25 times sweeter than sucrose (discovered in 1937).
Nonnutritive sweetener; sodium cyclamate. When fed to rats in very high amounts, sodium cyclamate was found to produce bladder tumors. On the basis of this finding, the Delaney Clause of the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was exercised, and this sweetener was withdrawn from use in foods in the United States.
Either of two compounds, sodium or calcium cyclamate, that are thirty times as sweet as sugar and, unlike saccharin, stable to heat. Cyclamates were used as sweetening agents in the food industry until 1%9, when their use was banned because they were suspected of causing cancer.
Artificial sweetening agents which are about 30 times as sweet as cane sugar. After being in use since 1965, they were banned by government decree in 1969 because of adverse reports received from the USA.
The calcium salt of cyclamic acid, formerly used as a non-nutritive sweetener and now banned because of possible cancer-causing effects.