Mandy said:
I will have to try mine with lemonade too and hope it masks the taste. I have just put a Colony West ginger beer into the fermenter, I'm told it's better without the artificial sweetener taste
I looked at the Colony West brew when I bought my Morgans was intrigued by the "sodium cyclamate" content as I did not know what it is ? well I do now and NO thank you very much .
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Sodium cyclamate (sweetener code 952) is an
artificial sweetener. It is 30–50 times sweeter than sucrose (table sugar), making it the least potent of the commercially used artificial sweeteners. It is often used with other artificial sweeteners, especially saccharin; the mixture of 10 parts cyclamate to 1 part saccharin is common and masks the off-tastes of both sweeteners.
[1] It is less expensive than most sweeteners, including
sucralose, and is stable under heating."
Then this
'in October 1970 the
Food and Drug Administration under a new FDA commisssioner banned cyclamate completely from all food and drug products in the United States.
..."
Abbott Laboratories claimed that its own studies were unable to reproduce the 1969 study's results, and, in 1973, Abbott petitioned the FDA to lift the ban on cyclamate. This petition was eventually denied in 1980 by FDA Commissioner
Jere Goyan.
[7] Abbott Labs, together with the
Calorie Control Council (a political
lobby representing the diet foods industry), filed a second petition in 1982. Although the FDA has stated that a review of all available evidence does not implicate cyclamate as a carcinogen in mice or rats,
[8] cyclamate remains banned from food products in the United States. The petition is now held in abeyance, though not actively considered.
[9] It is unclear whether this is at the request of Abbott Labs or because the petition is considered to be insufficient by the FDA. :huh: :huh: :huh:
