Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An intensely sweet, heat-stable derivative of sucrose that contains no calories.

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  • noun A selectively chlorinated sucrose, used as an artificial sweetener under the the trade name Splenda.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably blend of sucrose and galactose.]

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Examples

  • It is adding the artificial sweetener sucralose, which is commercially known as Splenda, and a proprietary additive that enhances sweetness.

    Hawaiian Punch Makes Over Drink, Mascot Paul Ziobro 2011

  • The U.K. maker of food ingredients lost a preliminary U.S. court case against competing Chinese generic manufacturers of its star product, a sweetener known as sucralose, which Tate sells as Splenda.

    Dissolving Confidence in Tate & Lyle 2008

  • Well, the makers of Splenda argue that sweetener is made from sucralose, which is a chemical ingredient that is made from table sugar.

    CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2007 2007

  • Then in 1998 the Food & Drug Administration approved a sweetener called sucralose.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Fifty-one percent of consumers said that they either already ate or would consider eating or drinking products or beverages that contain sucralose, which is sold under the trade name Splenda among others.

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

  • But this drink has neither the "high fructose corn syrup" that is ubiquitous in American soft drinks, nor the chemicals (such as sucralose or aspartame) used in diet drinks.

    The French Gift for Prosaics Linda 2008

  • Of course one can google the terms "sucralose" and "safety" and come up with sites that claim it will kill you or at least make you stupid, but so many of those sites are trying to sell me someone's book or shoving pop-up ads in front of me that I can't really take them seriously.

    Just stuff Lisa B. 2006

  • Of course one can google the terms "sucralose" and "safety" and come up with sites that claim it will kill you or at least make you stupid, but so many of those sites are trying to sell me someone's book or shoving pop-up ads in front of me that I can't really take them seriously.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Lisa B. 2006

  • Artificial sweeteners such as sucralose and aspartame are both attributed to weight gain.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • Tate & Lyle tends to use ingredients in its portfolio, such as sucralose and Promitor fibers, in these applications developed on these platforms.

    FoodNavigator-USA RSS 2009

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