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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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