All saccharin synonyms
sac·cha·rin
S s noun saccharin
- glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- aspartame — an artificial sweetener produced from aspartic acid. Formula: C14H18N2O5
- xylose — A sugar of the pentose class that occurs widely in plants, especially as a component of hemicelluloses.
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- cyclamate — a salt or ester of cyclamic acid. Certain of the salts have a very sweet taste and were formerly used as food additives and sugar substitutes
- cyclamates — Plural form of cyclamate.
- maltose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- caramel — A caramel is a chewy sweet food made from sugar, butter, and milk.
- dextrose — Dextrose is a natural form of sugar that is found in fruits, honey, and in the blood of animals.
- lactose — Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.
- levulose — fructose.
- artificial sweetener — A sugar substitute, a food additive that attempts to duplicate the effect of sugar in taste but usually with fewer calories.
- cassonade — raw or unrefined sugar