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Saccharin is a sweet-tasting synthetic compound used as a substitute for sugar; saccharose is an alternative name for sucrose, cane sugar; the adjective saccharine refers to something excessively sweet or sentimental. In biochemistry, saccharides are the simple carbohydrates, often called sugars, whose names end in ‑ose (see ‑ose²); they are divided into groups according to their complexity (monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides).