Sodium Cyclamate (C6H12NNaO3S)
Properties: sodium cyclamate is white crystal or white crystal powder, odorless, sweet taste, easily soluble in water, hardly soluble in ethanol, insoluble in chloroform and ether. It is lightly decomposes under acidic conditions and is stable under alkaline conditions. It is a non-nutritive sweetener, with a bitter taste when the concentration is greater than 0.4%.
Applications: the sweetness of sodium cyclamate is slow, but it lasts a long time, and the sweetness is pure. It can be used instead of or mixed with sucrose. Sodium cyclamate can also be mixed with saccharin to mask the bad taste of saccharin. When the ratio of sodium cyclamate and saccharin is 10:1, the flavor effect of the product is better. The advantages of sodium cyclamate are better sweetness, lower delayed bitterness and lower cost than saccharin; the disadvantages are low sweetness, large dosage and easy to exceed the standard.
