CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Splenda, European Food Safety Authority, Sodium Cyclamate
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The more sugar you take in, the more chances you have for tooth decay. There is concern with the overuse of sugar. We know that sugar can cause problems, like tooth decay. Used mostly in diet soft drinks, but the second most common is in oral hygiene products. Some of them are nutritive (they do give some calories) 2/3 of people in america are either obese or overweight. This is associated with the different forms of sugar. But usually a very small number of calories compared to the amount that other sweeteners provide. The us consumes half of all the non-nutritive sweeteners in the world. Discovered in 1878 by constantin fahlberg and ira remsen. Fahlberg was working with saccharin and noticed a sweet taste. This compound was saccharin because it was given the same sweetness as saccharose, which is the chemical name for sugar. Published a number of articles with respect to the use and synthesis of saccharin.
