An artificial sweetener chemical compound used in food and beverages to provide sweetness without calories.
From Latin 'dulcis' (sweet) plus the chemical suffix '-in.' This synthetic compound was developed in the late 19th century as an alternative sweetener.
Dulcin was one of the first artificial sweeteners, created in the 1880s—it's wild to think that scientists named even their chemical sweeteners using the Latin word for 'sweet'!
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