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The Plot Against Sugar
In 1957, a father-and-son team from Brooklyn kicked off America's love affair with artificial sweeteners when they began manufacturing a mix of saccharin, cyclamates, and lactose—Sweet'N Low. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, a (disinherited) family member writes of the sugar substitute's creation, success, and subsequent dethroning by Equal and Splenda
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The Plot Against Sugar
In 1957, a father-and-son team from Brooklyn kicked off America's love affair with artificial sweeteners when they began manufacturing a mix of saccharin, cyclamates, and lactose—Sweet'N Low. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, a (disinherited) family member writes of the sugar substitute's creation, success, and subsequent dethroning by Equal and Splenda
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