Question

The artificial sweetener containing chlorine that has the appearance and taste as that of sugar and is stable at cooking temperature is:
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• A. Aspartame
• B. Alitame
• C. Saccharin
• D. Sucralose

Answer 1

The correct option is D Sucralose

The artificial sweetener containing chlorine that has the appearance and taste as that of sugar and is stable at cooking temperature is sucralose. Its chemical formula is $C_{12}{H}_{19}C{l}_3{O}_8$. Its structure is:

It is derived from sugar through a chemical process in which 3 hydroxyl groups are replaced by 3 chlorine atoms on sugar molecules which produces a sweetener which has no calories and is 600 times sweeter than sucrose.