Empty pleasures

Peña, Carolyn Thomas de la.

Empty pleasures the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda / [electronic resource] : Carolyn de la Peña. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

False scarlet : healthful sugar vs. adulterous saccharin in the early twentieth century -- Alchemic ally : women's creativity and control in saccharin and cyclamates -- Diet men : the food-pharma origins of artificially sweetened products -- Prosperity stomachs and prosperous women : diet entrepreneurs -- Saccharin rebels : the right to risky pleasure in 1977 -- Nutrasweet nation : profit, peril, and the promise of a free lunch -- Conclusion : Splenda, sugar, and what mother nature intended.

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Nonnutritive sweeteners--History.


Print books.

TP422 / .P46 2010

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