Your Favorite Artificial Sweetener, Aspartame

dale | August 17, 2008

Aspartame was developed as a treatment for Peptic Ulcers.  As the story goes, the chemist licked his fingers and discovered an ultra sweet taste.  Suddenly, the former ulcer drug became the new sweetener kid on the block.  At 180 times sweeter than sugar and zero calories, Aspartame is now in over 9,000 products and brings [...]