What is the difference between saccharin and saccharic acid?
Saccharin is an artificial sweetening agent. It is about 550 times as sweet as cane sugar. Itis excreted from the body in the urine unchanged. It appears to be entirely inert and harmless when taken. Its use is of great value to diabetic people who need to control the intake of calories.
On the other hand, saccharic acid is a dibasic acid obtained by the bacterial oxidation of glucose in the mouth or by conc. HNO, in the laboratory
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