How to Use saccharin in a Sentence

saccharin

noun
  • Beneath their saccharin, saucy glaze, the pork ribs were dense and dry, almost chalky ($23.99 for a full rack with two sides).
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 18 May 2018
  • If participants could taste the saccharin at any point, the fit test was failed.
    Hannah Thomasy, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Those that ate saccharin packed on more fat, gained more weight and consumed extra calories.
    Brandon Keim, WIRED, 3 Feb. 2012
  • The bad rap started with studies in the 1970s linking saccharin to bladder cancer.
    Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 24 June 2019
  • Decades of research showed that the way saccharin caused bladder cancer in male rats was not possible in humans.
    Kendall Powell, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2018
  • He was involved in debates about a ban on saccharin, the approval process for drugs and medical devices, and the use of antibiotics in animal feeds.
    Nina Agrawal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Sweeteners such as saccharin have been shown to change the type and function of the gut microbiome, the community of microorganisms that live in the intestine.
    Eunice Zhang, Washington Post, 3 June 2018
  • The safety of sugar replacements, including the decades-old science dispute over the use of saccharin in the diet drink Tab, has been heavily scrutinized.
    Christina Jewett, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • Food companies have rolled out a parade of faux sugar options since the accidental discovery of saccharin in a lab well over a century ago.
    Susan Puckett, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
  • And even the most organic of eaters can sometimes reach for conventional breath mints in the name of fast freshness—ending up with a mouthful of artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame and saccharin.
    Kris Rile, Good Housekeeping, 12 July 2017
  • Sucralose, acesulfame potassium and saccharin have all been shown to increase cancer risk in animal studies as well.
    Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 8 May 2018
  • Two sweeteners in particular, sucralose and saccharin (found in Sweet ‘N Low), altered some people's ability to process glucose.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • While Tab contained two artificial sweeteners – saccharin and cyclamate – cyclamate was the more important of the two.
    Jeffrey Miller, The Conversation, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Queeny’s coal-tar drug company, Monsanto, was also flush from lucrative contracts with Coca-Cola, who bought their caffeine, vanillin, and saccharin.
    Rebecca Altman, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
  • In one study, volunteers ate the equivalent 10 Sweet’N Low packets’ worth of saccharin per day for a week, yet only four of seven volunteers developed any carbohydrate metabolism issues at this extreme dose.
    Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Several concerns by researchers have been raised about high-intensity sweeteners—saccharin and aspartame—and cancer.
    Jamie Pitlick, Quartzy, 3 July 2019
  • Two sweeteners, saccharin and sucralose, worsened the participants’ blood sugar control.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • One animal study showed that artificial sweeteners saccharin, sucralose and aspartame appeared to spike blood sugar more than regular sugar.
    Molly Kimball, NOLA.com, 8 May 2018
  • But artificial sweeteners such as saccharin offer the anticipation and experience of sweet taste without the energy boost.
    Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2019
  • What to know about sugar substitutes Sweeteners are low or no-calorie and common ones include aspartame, saccharin, stevia, acesulfame potassium, sucralose and saccharin, among others.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • In 2014 Elinav's team gave mice the artificial sweetener saccharin and found that the rodents' gut microbiome interacted with the sweetener, affecting the animals' regulation of glucose levels.
    Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Also called nonnutritive sweeteners, these can be synthetic, such as saccharin and aspartame, or naturally derived, such as stevia.
    Eunice Zhang, Washington Post, 3 June 2018
  • In a study published last August in Cell, 120 volunteers were randomly assigned to consume aspartame, saccharin, sucralose or stevia over two weeks at doses below what's generally considered acceptable.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • During his tenure there the agency’s proposed ban on saccharin, the artificial sweetener, was defeated, but overall his record won plaudits from industry representatives and consumer advocates alike.
    Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Two sweeteners in particular, saccharin and stevia, worsened the participants' blood sugar control.
    Laura Reiley, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The principal sweeteners used in Coca-Cola products are aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, saccharin, cyclamate and steviol glycosides.
    Stephanie Toone, ajc, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The primary artificial sweeteners Coca-Cola (KO) uses in its products include aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, saccharin, cyclamate and steviol gylcosides.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 25 Feb. 2020

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