What is Sodium Cyclamate?

 
Sodium Cyclamate (Sweetener code 952) is an artificial sweetener. It is 30 to 50 times sweeter than Sucrose and it is often used with other artificial sweeteners, especially saccharin; A mixture of 10 parts Sodium Cyclamate and 1 part saccharin is common, masking the odors of both sweeteners. It is cheaper than most sweeteners, including sucralose, and is stable when heated.  Safety concerns have led some countries to ban its use, even though the European Union considers it its safe. 

The history of Sodium Cyclamate

 
Cyclamate was discovered in 1937 by graduate student Michael Sveda at the University of Illinois.  Sveda works in the lab on the synthesis of antipyretics. He put the cigarette on the lab bench, and when he put it back in his mouth, he found the sweetness of cyclamate. 

The function of Sodium Cyclamate

  
It belongs to non-nutritive synthetic sweetener, its sweetness is 30 times of sucrose, and the price is only one third of sucrose, and it does not taste bitter like saccharin, so it can be used as an international food additive in cool drinks, fruit juice, ice cream, cakes and preserves. It can also be used for family flavoring, cooking, pickles, sweet taste of cosmetics, syrup, sugar coating, sweeteners, toothpaste, mouthwash, lip balm and so on. Patients with diabetes and obesity can use it as a substitute for sugar.