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Q. The artificial sweetener containing chlorine that has the appearance and taste as that of sugars and is stable at cooking temperature is

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The artificial sweetener containing chlorine that has the appearance and taste as that of sugar and is stable at cooking temperature is sucralose.
Sucralose is derived from sugar through a multi-step patented manufacturing process that selectively substitutes three atoms of chlorine for three hydroxyl groups on the sugar molecule. This change produces a sweetener that has no calories, yet is $600$ times sweeter than sucrose.
Sucralose tastes like sugar. Its chemical formula is $C _{12} H _{19} Cl _{3} O _{8}$.