Saccharin Overview Saccharin (SAK-uh-rin) is a synthetic compound whose water solutions are at least 500 times as sweet as table sugar. It passes through the human digestive system without being absorbed, so it has an effective caloric value of zero. It...

(from Greek, sakharon: sugar; also spelt saccharine) Saccharin is well known as an artificial sweetener. In biological psychology, saccharin is used to adulterate food and water in experiments interested in TASTE PERCEPTION (see GUSTATION) and related...

Saccharin[2] is the oldest artificial sweetener. The basic substance, benzoic sulfinide, was produced in 1878 by Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist working on coal tar derivatives in Ira Remsen's laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University, and it was he...

FLYING IS tough enough today without a program that rewards passengers for being nice. The idea comes from the marketers at Song Airlines, Delta's low-cost subsidiary, and they'll probably regret it - just as many a parent has regretted incentives that make the cookie,...

Saccharin as the first product in China that suffered from dumping investigation in overseas markets completely lost the US market after the imposition of antidumping tax by the United States in 2003. With the great efforts made by both enterprises and lawyers, the...

For anyone nostalgic for the saccharine but oh-so-addictive mid-'90s acoustic movement, and for golden-throated hipster goddesses who strummed with the naked eagerness of a starlet teen at her first coffeehouse gig, Kate Walsh provides a thoughtful update. By now it's well-documented that Walsh recorded her...

“My goal is to be a ghetto rock star,” Boogs insists. “Because rock stars get to be so free-spirited and wild.” Not that the Bed-Stuy resident doesn’t know about fast times himself. At 18 he hooked up with a pair of childhood pals to form...