Saccharin - Calorie Free
Sweetener
Saccharin is a non-caloric
sweetener used in a wide range foods and beverages, like soft drinks,
tabletop sweeteners, baked goods, jams, chewing gum, canned fruit, candy,
dessert toppings and salad dressings. Saccharin also is used in cosmetic
products, vitamins and pharmaceuticals.
Calorie and Weight Reduction
Benefits
Because saccharin passes
through the digestive system unabsorbed, it offers a no-calorie sweet
taste, so consumers may enjoy 'sweet' foods without ingesting the extra
calories contained in natural sweeteners like sucrose (table sugar). This
calorie reduction is helpful in weight loss and in calorie-controlled
diet treatment of obesity
Safety of Saccharin Calorie-Free
Sweeteners
Saccharin has been extensively
tested and re-tested. For example, considerable research on human usage
has established no association between saccharin and cancer. Saccharin
is approved in more than 100 countries and has been determined safe by
the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the World Health
Organization and the Scientific Committee for Food of the European Union.
Indeed, the totality of the available evidence indicates saccharin is
safe for human consumption, although in animal tests high doses of saccharin
have caused bladder tumors in some male rats which has fuelled concern
that saccharin is unsafe.
Saccharin Now Officially
Safe as a Calorie-Free Sweetener
In July 1997, prompted by
the Calorie Control Council, the U.S. National Institutes of Health announced
that its National Toxicology Program (NTP) was reviewing data that could
delist saccharin from the federal government's Report on Carcinogens.
On December 21, 2000, the President signed federal legislation to remove
the saccharin warning label that had been required on saccharin-sweetened
foods and beverages in the U.S. since 1977.
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Foods, see Calories
in Foods
Calories & Sweeteners - More Information
Calories in Sugar/Sweeteners
Nutrition in Sugar
Calorie-Free Sweeteners
Low Calorie Sweeteners
Acesulfame K
Saccharin
Sucralose
Glycemic Index
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