There’s a certain dilemma about the sweet knife that is an ‘artificial sweetener’. Does it in reality help us to cut down our weight or add on? How sinful or sinless is an artificial sweetener? The certainties and the uncertainties leading to various conjectures regarding the sweetening agents are entwined and are debatable. These agents came into existence accidentally by a few brave and bored scientists who had the audacity to taste their samples. Evidently, they closed their eyes to the violation of innumerable codes of laboratory hygiene (highly inadvisable move)! The first fluky champ was Saccharin, discovered in 1879 at Johns Hopkins by a scientist who was busy as a beaver working on...
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