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From: [e-mail] (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,sci.chem
Subject: Re: should be taken only on the advice of a physician
Date: 18 Nov 1992 16:02:21 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Marc Roussel) writes:
>
>     The sugar (dextrose) is not the major flavouring.  Sodium cyclamate
>is much sweeter than sucrose and it contributes most of the sweetness.
>The dextrose is there as a filler.  Have you ever noticed how little
>stuff there is in one of those artificial sweetener packets?  If you only
>left the 33% of it that was cyclamate, it would seem really strange to
>the average consumer.  ("Hey!  I got ripped off!  There's almost nothing
>in here!")  If the dextrose were the major source of sweetness, the
>caloric value of Sugar Twin would be virtually identical to that of
>sucrose.  (Dextrose is, after all, just a fancy name for glucose.
>Sucrose is a disaccharide of glucose and fructose.)  I presume that the
>sand (silicon dioxide) is there as a byproduct of the industrial process
>that produces and refines cyclamates.

Close.  The silicon dioxide is there to prevent clump formation, and to
keep the mixture from sticking to the side of the mixing equipment in
higher humidities.
--scott