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{{Short description|Brand of artificial sweetener}} {{Otheruses|Sweet and Low (disambiguation)}} [[File:Sweet n Low.svg|176px|thumb|right]] [[File:Mural on the Side of Cumberland Packing Corp.jpg|thumb|right|Mural on the side of the Cumberland Packing Corporation, designed and painted by Benjamin Kile]] [[File:SweetnLowSweetener.JPG|thumb|Sweet'n Low packets, showing Canadian cyclamate-based formulation]] '''Sweet'n Low''' (stylized as '''Sweet'N Low'''<!--'''S{{small|WEET}}'N L{{small|OW}}'''-->) is a brand of [[artificial sweetener]] now made primarily from granulated [[saccharin]] (except in Canada, where it contains [[cyclamate]] instead<ref name="HealthLinkBC1">{{citation|title=Comparing Sugar Substitutes|website=HealthLink BC website|url=https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthy-eating-physical-activity/food-and-nutrition/nutrients/comparing-sugar-substitute|date=2023-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321075432/https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthy-eating-physical-activity/food-and-nutrition/nutrients/comparing-sugar-substitute|archive-date=2023-03-21|url-status=live|quote=Cyclamate (Sucaryl, Sugar Twin, Sweet 'N Low). Cyclamate is sold as a sweetener in packet, tablet, liquid, and granulated form. Health Canada does not allow food manufacturers to sell foods or beverages that contain cyclamate.}}</ref>). When introduced in 1958 in the United States, Sweet'N Low was cyclamate-based, but it was replaced by a saccharin-based formulation in 1969.<ref name="NYTimes1">{{citation|title=The Bittersweet History of Sugar Substitutes|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=1987-03-29|page=24, section 6|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/magazine/the-bittersweet-history-of-sugar-substitutes.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706225145/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/magazine/the-bittersweet-history-of-sugar-substitutes.html|archive-date=2023-07-06|quote=The Cumberland Packing Corporation of Brooklyn, N.Y., markets cyclamate-based Sweet 'n Low as a sugar substitute.}}</ref> It is also a brand name applied to a family of sweetener and sweetened products, some containing sweeteners other than saccharin or cyclamate.<ref name="SweetNLow1">{{citation|url=https://www.sweetnlow.com/international/exploreproducts|title=Our Products|website=Sweet'N Low website|access-date=2023-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706221916/https://www.sweetnlow.com/international/exploreproducts|archive-date=2023-07-06|url-status=live}}</ref> There have been over 500 billion Sweet'N Low packets produced.<ref name="BrooklynEagle1">{{cite news | title = B'klyn-Based Sweet 'N Low Celebrates Milestone: 500 Billionth Pink Packet | publisher = Brooklyn Eagle | date = 2006-11-01 | url = http://www.brooklyneagle.com/archive/category.php?category_id=6&id=9319 | accessdate = 2009-12-10}}</ref> Sweet'N Low is manufactured and distributed in the [[United States]] by [[Cumberland Packing Corporation]], which also produces [[Sugar In The Raw]] and [[Stevia]] In The Raw, and in the [[United Kingdom]] by [[Dietary Foods Ltd]]. Sweet'N Low has been licensed to [[Bernard Food Industries]] for a line of low-calorie baking mixes. Its patent is {{US patent|3625711}}.
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