Saccharin, also called saccharine, benzosulfimide, or E954, or used in saccharin sodium or saccharin calcium forms, is a non-nutritive artificial sweetener. Saccharin is a sultam that is about 500 tim
Sodium salt of saccharin, a white powder
Saccharin, historical wrapping, Sugar Museum (Berlin)
Constantin Fahlberg was a Russian chemist who discovered the sweet taste of anhydroorthosulphaminebenzoic acid in 1877–78 when analysing the chemical compounds in coal tar at Johns Hopkins University
Saccharin
…than a specific cross-reaction between antimicrobial sulfonamides and non-antimicrobial ones (like saccharin). Saccharin was produced first in 1879, by Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist working on coal tar derivatives in Ira Remsen's laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Fahlberg noticed a sweet taste on his hand one…
Cenotaph for Constantin Fahlberg in Magdeburg, Germany