Question : Which of the following is an artificial sweetener?
Option 1: Saccharin
Option 2: Glucose
Option 3: Lactamase
Option 4: Sodium benzoate
Correct Answer: Saccharin
Solution : The correct answer is Saccharin .
Saccharin is an artificial sweetener that lacks nutrients. It is made in a laboratory by oxidising o-toluene sulfonamide or phthalic anhydride. In the 1870s, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, named Constantine Fahlberg, made the discovery. Since 1900, saccharin has been used to sweeten food and drink.