Calcium cyclamate

INS 952(ii)

Used as a sweetener.

Calcium cyclamate is the cyclamate salt used where a sodium-free preparation is wanted, typically in tabletop sweeteners. Its regulatory position follows the other cyclamates: permitted in the EU and by Codex, prohibited in the United States.

Where it is and isn’t permitted

Status of Calcium cyclamate by jurisdiction. Every jurisdiction this site covers is listed, including those where the substance does not appear.
JurisdictionStatusScope and limitsCitation
United StatesFood and Drug AdministrationNot listedDoes not appear on this jurisdiction’s permitted list. That is not the same as being prohibited.
Codex AlimentariusCodex Alimentarius Commission / JECFAPermitted, with conditions

34 food categories

highest permitted level 3,000 mg/kg

Show every food category
  • 01.1.4 Flavoured Fluid Milk Drinks — 250 mg/kg
  • 01.7 Dairy-based desserts (e.g. pudding, fruit or flavoured yoghurt) — 250 mg/kg
  • 02.4 Fat-based desserts excluding dairy-based dessert products of food category 01.7 — 250 mg/kg
  • 03.0 Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet — 250 mg/kg
  • 04.1.2.4 Canned or bottled (pasteurized) fruit — 1,000 mg/kg
  • 04.1.2.5 — 1,000 mg/kg
  • 04.1.2.6 Fruit-based spreads (e.g. chutney) excluding products of food category — 2,000 mg/kg
  • 04.1.2.8 Fruit preparations, including pulp, purees, fruit toppings and coconut milk — 250 mg/kg
  • 04.1.2.9 Fruit-based desserts, incl. fruit-flavoured water-based desserts — 250 mg/kg
  • 04.2.2.6 Vegetable (including mushrooms and fungi, roots and tubers, pulses and legumes, and aloe vera), seaweed, and nut and seed pulps and preparations (e.g. vegetable desserts and sauces, candied vegetables) other than food category 04.2.2.5 — 250 mg/kg
  • 05.1.2 Cocoa mixes (syrups) — 250 mg/kg
  • 05.1.3 Cocoa-based spreads, incl. fillings — 500 mg/kg
  • 05.1.4 Cocoa and chocolate products — 500 mg/kg
  • 05.1.5 Imitation chocolate, chocolate substitute products — 500 mg/kg
  • 05.2 Confectionery including hard and soft candy, nougats, etc. other than food categories 05.1, 05.3, and 05.4 — 500 mg/kg
  • 05.3 Chewing gum — 3,000 mg/kg
  • 05.4 Decorations (e.g. for fine bakery wares), toppings (non-fruit), and sweet sauces — 500 mg/kg
  • 06.5 Cereal and starch based desserts (e.g. rice pudding, tapioca pudding) — 250 mg/kg
  • 07.2 Fine bakery wares (sweet, salty, savoury) and mixes — 1,600 mg/kg
  • 10.4 Egg-based desserts (e.g. custard) — 250 mg/kg
  • 11.4 Other sugars and syrups (e.g. xylose, maple syrup, sugar toppings) — 500 mg/kg
  • 11.6 Table-top sweeteners, including those containing high-intensity sweeteners — GMP
  • 12.6.1 Emulsified sauces and dips (e.g. mayonnaise, salad dressing, onion dips) — 500 mg/kg
  • 12.7 Salads (e.g. macaroni salad, potato salad) and sandwich spreads excluding cocoa-and nut-based spreads of food categories 04.2.2.5 and 05.1.3 — 500 mg/kg
  • 13.3 Dietetic foods intended for special medical purposes (excluding products of food category 13.1) — 400 mg/kg
  • 13.4 Dietetic formulae for slimming purposes and weight reduction — 400 mg/kg
  • 13.5 Dietetic foods (e.g. supplementary foods for dietary use) excluding products of food categories — 400 mg/kg
  • 13.6 Food supplements — 1,250 mg/kg
  • 14.1.3.1 Fruit nectar — 400 mg/kg
  • 14.1.3.2 Vegetable nectar — 400 mg/kg
  • 14.1.3.3 Concentrates for fruit nectar — 400 mg/kg
  • 14.1.3.4 Concentrates for vegetable nectar — 400 mg/kg
  • 14.1.4 Water-based flavoured drinks, including "sport," “energy,” or "electrolyte" drinks and particulated drinks — 350 mg/kg
  • 14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g. beer, wine and spirituous cooler-type beverages, low-alcoholic refreshers) — 250 mg/kg
CXS 192-1995 Table One, INS 952(ii)and 33 further provisionsretrieved 2026-09-07

What it is made from

Made by neutralising cyclamic acid with a calcium base. The acid is produced by sulfonating petroleum-derived cyclohexylamine.

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  • Vegetarian
InChIKey
UKLJMHXGZUJRTL-UHFFFAOYSA-L
PubChem
CID 8752

Every name it appears under

39 recorded names. A label may use any of them.

INS number

  • 952(ii)

CAS registry number

  • 139-06-0

Other names

  • calcium bis(cyclohexylsulfamate)
  • Calcium bis(cyclohexylsulphamate)
  • Calcium Cycalmate
  • Calcium cyclamate
  • Calcium cyclamate anhydrous
  • Calcium cyclamate dihydrate
  • Calcium cyclamate(1:2)
  • Calcium cyclohexane sulphamate
  • Calcium cyclohexanesulfamate
  • Calcium cyclohexanesulfamate dihydrate
  • Calcium cyclohexylsulfamate (1:2)
  • Calcium cyclohexylsulfamate dihydrate
  • Calcium cyclohexylsulphamate
  • CALCIUM N-CYCLOHEXYLSULPHAMATE
  • calcium;N-cyclohexylsulfamate
  • Calciumcyclohexylsulfamat
  • CCRIS 186
  • Cyclamate calcium
  • Cyclamate Calcium (2:1) Salt
  • CYCLAMATE CALCIUM ANHYDROUS
  • Cyclamate, calcium salt
  • Cyclan
  • Cyclohexanesulfamic acid, calcium salt (2:1)
  • Cyclohexanesulfamic acid, calcium salt (2:1), dihydrate
  • CYCLOHEXYLSULFAMIC ACID CALCIUM SALT
  • Cylan
  • Dietil
  • HSDB 823
  • INS NO.952(II)
  • INS-952(II)
  • Kalziumzyklamate
  • Sucaryl calcium
  • Sulfamic acid, cyclohexyl-, calcium salt (2:1)
  • Sulfamic acid, cyclohexyl-, calcium salt (2:1), dihydrate
  • Sulfamic acid, N-cyclohexyl-, calcium salt (2:1)
  • UKLJMHXGZUJRTL-UHFFFAOYSA-L
  • X12LMJ1WYL

Hazard reference values

No reference value for this substance in the sources we hold.

Evidence and how bodies read it

Studies, and the differing conclusions regulators drew from them, are curated by hand rather than machine-read, and none has been written for this substance yet.

Sources for this page

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