saccharin
noun/ˈsækərɪn/
/ˈsækərɪn/
[uncountable]- a sweet chemical substance used instead of sugar, especially by people who are trying to lose weightTopics Foodc2Word Originlate 19th cent.: from modern Latin saccharum ‘sugar’+ -in.
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