e954 Saccharin And Its Sodium, Potassium And Calcium Salts
Food additive with artificial sweetener role. Although it has an unpleasant metallic bitter aftertaste, saccharin has been used on a large scale, by both diabetics and the food industry, being 300-500 times sweeter than sugar. Being an intense, calorie-free sweetener, that does not cause tooth decay, it is added in flavored alcoholic and non-alcoholc beverages and in snacks and desserts with low energy value or no added sugar, based on water, milk, starch, cocoa, fats, eggs, cereals or fruits, in confectioneries with low energy value or no added sugar. It is used in vegetable or fruit cans, jams, jellies, marmalades, other spreads, in sauces, mustard, salads, soups, canned and semi-canned fish, crustaceans or mulluscs, fine bakery products etc. To mask the unpleasent aftertaste, saccharin is combined with other synthetic sweeteners
e955 Sucralose
e957 Thaumatin
e959 Neohesperidine Dc
