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cyclamate

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cyclamate /cy·cla·mate/ (si´klah-māt) any salt of cyclamic acid; the sodium and calcium salts have been widely used as non-nutritive sugar substitutes.
cy·cla·mate (skl-mt, skl-)
n.
A salt or ester of cyclamic acid formerly used as a sweetening agent, especially calcium cyclamate or sodium cyclamate.

cyclamate
[sī′kləmāt]
an artificial nonnutritive sweetener formerly used in the form of calcium or sodium salt.

cyclamate (sī´klmāt´),
n a noncaloric artificial sweetening agent used in conjunction with saccharin; presently banned by the FDA because of its carcinogenic potential.


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The sweetening power of APM is estimated to be 200 times that of sucrose, whereas saccharin and cyclamate are 300 and 30 times sweeter, respectively (Mazur 1984).
I miss the days when meat was on the hook for its high cholesterol and cyclamates was a legal substance and Red Dye No.
Some food dyes, cyclamates and other artificial sweeteners all eventually had to be pulled from the market, but it took decades from the time the FDA approval was awarded.
 
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