Why aren't diet sodas sweetened with Saccarin?

Question

you know those little pink packets you see in restaurants? It made me wonder why most diet drinks use nutrasweet and some use splenda..but none use saccarin.

more commonly known as Sweet N Low.

Answer 1

banned in sodas in US

Answer 2

They were, originally, ALL flavored with saccharin. People came to believe saccharin was a cancer-causing agent, so they migrated many sodas off to Nutrasweet, and later Splenda, as that became available. I'm not aware saccharine is banned, per se, in sodas, but it's not ubiquitous like it once was. Splenda is new, of course, and there are taste differences, and don't forget $ - some sweeteners are just cheaper than others.

Answer 3

Years ago some tree hugging scientists fed some lab rats HUGE doses of saccharin. The rats developed cancer. All of the non scientific tree huggers went in to a panic when they believed that if they ate a few pounds of saccharin everyday that they too would become victims of saccharin induced cancer.
Once again perception rules over reality.

Answer 4

Sacharin is a very very old artificial sweetener. it goes back to the late 19th cen. it was used for years as a sweetener, but when the FDA reviewed in th 1960s, they determined is was a corcinogen. in the last 20 years, sacharin has been used in a modified form. cyclomates is the best artificial sweetener, but is also considered a carcinogen by the FDA. however, such a large dose is required before it becomes carcinogenic, many countries - including Canada - allow it's use in products, and in bulk. Sacharin played a small, but important, role in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.

Answer 5

I don't know why. I think maybe it's because people prefer the taste of sweetners that taste more like sugar. Personally I LOVED saccharin back in the day!! Nothing like TAB or Fresca with saccharin!

Answer 6

They were, until the late 1980's.
There had been some scientific evidence of sodium saccharin causing cancer in labratory animals.
Soda companies were required to put warning labels on their products.
With the development of Nutrasweet, most manufacturers opted to use it instead.

Answer 7

saccarin has been known to cause cancer