An intensely sweet, sugar-like note reminiscent of artificial sweetener with a slight metallic edge. Provides a candied, powdery sweetness that lingers with a faintly bitter aftertaste. Used sparingly to add a sugary, gourmand facet without the caramelised depth of ethyl maltol.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1238.
White crystals or white crystalline powder.
Soluble in water, 3.3% soluble in alcohol, about 1% soluble in many oils. Easily soluble in aqueous alkali.
Odorless.
Intensely sweet taste, followed by a less pleasant astringent or metallic, sometimes described as bitter, after-taste, depending on the concentration of Saccharin tasted.
Combinations of Saccharin with Cyclamates are frequently used in modern low-calorie beverages, candy, etc.
Produced basically from Toluene, via methods with many variations: e.g. via ortho-Toluene sulfonamide, by oxidation with aqueous Potassium permanganate to ortho-Sulfamoyl benzoic acid, which is dehydrated to Saccharin.