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Cyclamate, an Artificial Sweetener for the Rest of the World

Time for more Masters of Social Gastronomy recapping! Last month we covered sugar and artificial sweeteners.

In 1937 Michael Svaeda was working in a lab on drugs to control fever. While, you know, smoking a cigarette.

He put the cigarette down to do some Science, and when he picked it up... sweetness! While it might have been the first candy cigarette that actually featured tobacco, the important part was the compound he'd spilled: cyclamate.

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The Quick and Dirty Guide to Saccharin

Time for more Masters of Social Gastronomy recapping! Last month we covered sugar and artificial sweeteners.

In terms of artificial sweeteners, saccharin has been around since the beginning of time. These days it hangs around in products like Brooklyn's very own Sweet 'N Low.

But back in 1879, we lacked any artificial sweeteners at all. And we didn't find them by looking for them, either.

Ira Remsen and Constantin Fahlberg were labmates,...

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