sweetening agent
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In 2010, the association submitted an application to the Food and Drug Administration to have its sweetening agent renamed “corn sugar” on nutrition labels.
From Time • Dec. 2, 2014
Most persons apparently think of sugar merely as a sweetening agent, forgetting entirely the fact that it is a most concentrated food.
From Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them (1918) by Goudiss, Alberta M. (Alberta Moorhouse)
Perhaps the most remarkable result had been the production of an artificial sweetening agent, termed saccharin, 250 times sweeter than sugar, prepared by a complicated series of reactions from coal tar.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various
The spiritus chloroformi is replaced by aqua chloroformi, or as a sweetening agent by solution of saccharin.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
The raw material is a coal-tar naphtha called toluene or toluol, which is also the raw material for saccharin, a sweetening agent made from coal-tar.
From The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association by Shonk, Albert