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cyclamate [1 record]

Record 1 2003-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Food Additives
  • Food Industries
  • Pharmacology
DEF

Group name for synthetic nonnutritive sweetening agents derived from cyclohexylamine or cyclamic acid ...

CONT

Cyclamates. Artificial sweetening agents about 30 times as sweet as refined sugar, removed from the market [in 1969] because they were found to cause bladder cancer in rats.

CONT

[Cyclamates include] the sodium and calcium salts of cyclohexane sulfamic acid as well as the acid form itself ... Cyclamates occur as white crystals or as a white crystalline powder. These are odorless ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Additifs alimentaires
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Pharmacologie
DEF

Édulcorant de synthèse ayant un pouvoir sucrant 30 fois supérieur à celui du sucre, présenté sous forme de cristaux blancs (ou de poudre cristalline blanche) inodores. Réservé à l'alimentation des diabétiques (mais interdit comme additif alimentaire dans certains pays).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos y compuestos químicos
  • Aditivos alimentarios
  • Industria alimentaria
  • Farmacología
DEF

Nombre de un grupo de edulcorantes sintéticos no nutritivos obtenido del cicloexilamino o ácido ciclámico; la serie incluye ciclamatos de sodio, potasio y calcio. Tóxico en dosis elevadas.

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