Cyclamic acid (cyclohexane sulfamic acid) is primarily a taste ingredient rather than an odorant — it is nearly odorless with only a faint clean note. Its perceptual signature is an intensely sweet taste, roughly 30-50x sucrose, not an aroma.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 322.
White crystals.
Very poorly soluble in water, decomposes in hot water.
Practically odorless.
Initially sour, then sweet taste (sweet after taste).
This acid is being used on an increasing scale as a sweet acidifying agent in soft drinks of no nutritional value (diet-soda, low-calorie carbonated beverages, etc.).
Produced from Cyclohexylamine by Sulfonation.