NutraSweet
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Logo of the NutraSweet company.

NutraSweet is a company that makes and sells aspartame, an artificial sugar substitute. NutraSweet is also the brand name for the sweetener aspartame, which was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter, a chemist working for G.D. Searle & Company. Employee Robert B. Shapiro was Chairman and CEO from 1982 to 1990.

NutraSweet has gained regulatory approvals permitting its sale in more than 100 countries. Despite losing market share in recent years to sucralose,¹² the NutraSweet company states that its product is used in over 5,000 products and consumed by some 250 million people worldwide.³

In March 2000, Monsanto, which was then a subsidiary of the Pharmacia corporation, sold NutraSweet to the private equity firm J.W. Childs.⁴

See also

• Aspartame
• Aspartame controversy
• Excitotoxicity
• Merisant, a different company that also makes sugar substitutes (including Equal, another aspartame-based product)
• Sugar substitute
• Sweet'n Low

References

1. ^ John Schmeltzer (2 December 2004). "Equal fights to get even as Splenda looks sweet" (subscription required), Chicago Tribune. Retrieved on 4 July 2007. 
2. ^ Carney, By Beth (2005-01-19). "It's Not All Sweetness for Splenda", BusinessWeek: Daily Briefing. Retrieved on 5 September 2008. 
3. ^ NutraSweet.com
4. ^ [1]

External links

• NutraSweet official Web site
• Safety of Artificial Sweetener Called Into Question by MP, The Guardian, UK, December 15, 2005
• The Lowdown on Sweet?—article in New York Times
• The Safety of Aspartame, The New York Times, USA, February 21, 2006
• EU Panel: Aspartame Poses No Cancer Risk, May 6, 2006
• Artificial Sweetener Given the All Clear, New Scientist, May 13, 2006
• Aspartame and Its Effects on Health, British Medical Journal