Neohesperidin Dihydrochacone NHDC is an sweetner with white or yellow white crystalline powder, the sweetness is about 1500-1800 times that of sucrose. The sweetening time is slightly later than saccharin sodium and far faster than that of glycyrrhizin (5:7:23s). The sweetness time of the three is 42:57:133s. In between, it is closer to sodium saccharin. Soluble in water, slightly soluble in ethanol, insoluble in ether and benzene.