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Select the correct statements about artificial sweeteners.

  1. ASaccharin is excreted unchanged in urine.
  2. BAspartame is used only in cold foods and soft drinks because it is unstable at cooking temperature.
  3. CAlitame is less sweet than aspartame.
  4. DSucralose is a trichloro derivative of sucrose.

Answer: A, B, D

Saccharin is not metabolised, aspartame decomposes on heating, and sucralose is trichlorosucrose, so statements 1, 2 and 4 are true. Alitame (about 2000 times) is far sweeter than aspartame (about 100 times), so statement 3 is false.
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