The first commercial sweetener blend was saccharin and cyclamate. Theprimary advantage of this blend was that saccharin (300) times swecter thansucrose) boosted the sweetening power of cyclamate (30 times sweeter thansucrose), while cyclamate masked the aftertaste some people associate withsaccharin,Today, blends are frequently used. For exaniple, in the United States, dietfountain soft drinks are generally sweetened with a combination of aspar-tame and saccharin, while in onher parts of the torhi soft drinks may con-tain as many as four sweeteners. Sigar-fne quns ind cindies contain com-binations such as saccharin/sorbitol and cea ll ine putasiumuisomali.When choosing a swecteners, many sh rigs n th e cisidered. What