Content tagged "aspartame"

Posted by Allison MacLachlan S.M., Science Writing, 2011
Topics: aspartame, FDA, health, obesity, sweet

Aspartame: Artifice and the Science of Sweet

Aspartame has become an extremely popular artificial sweetener since its entry into the American market in 1981. This thesis takes a journalistic look at how artifice came to satisfy the human sweet tooth.