Perspective: Artificial sweeteners get more than their fair share of grief
Activists love to use misconceptions about two artificial sweeteners, saccharin and aspartame, to beat Monsanto over the head, unfairly in my opinion. They love to disparage these sweeteners and declare that “Monsanto is the company that gave us saccharin, aspartame, and PCBs.” That’s only partly correct. Saccharin (Sweet & Low, Necta Sweet) is the oldest […]