saccharin
pronunciation
How to pronounce saccharin in British English:
UK [ˈsækərɪn]
How to pronounce saccharin in American English:
US [ˈsækərɪn]
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- Noun:
- a crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener
Word Origin
- saccharin
- saccharin: [19] Medieval Latin saccharum ‘sugar’ belonged to the same word-family as the ancestor of English sugar. Its original contribution to English was the adjective saccharine ‘sugary’ [17]; and in the late 1870s the German chemist Fahlberg used it in coining the term saccharin for the new sweetening substance he had invented. English borrowed it in the mid 1880s.=> sugar
- saccharin (n.)
- white crystalline compound used as a sugar substitute, 1885, from German, coined 1879 by Russian-born chemist Constantin Fahlberg (1850-1910), who discovered it by accident, from Latin saccharon (see saccharine). Marketed from 1887 as saccharine.
Example
- 1. Artificial sweeteners , including saccharin , are often added to toothpaste to make them taste better .
- 2. A simple general rule about additives is toavoid sodium nitrite , saccharin , caffeine , olestra , acesulfame k , and artificial coloring .
- 3. This product contains saccharin which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals .
- 4. In a series of experiments , scientists at purdue university compared weight gain and eating habits in rats whose diets were supplemented with sweetened food containing either zero-calorie saccharin or sugar .
- 5. Honey products are our daily nutriment not leaving , it is not that honey use things that its subject problem mixes fructose thick liquid , maltose and cane sugar , etc. in honey , and concoct and pretend to be honey with happy and plain , saccharin and water , etc.