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Glucose substitutes have been an integral part of American life since saccharin was launched at the 1893 World's Rational. In Clear Pleasures, the first background of artificial sweeteners in America, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's background, examining the invention, production, marketing, rules, and ingestion of sugars substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda. She describes how saccharin, an accidental laboratory by-product, was altered from a perceived adulterant into a wholesome component. As food suppliers and pharmaceutical companies functioned together to make diet products, savvy women's newspaper freelance writers and editors promoted artificially sweetened foods as ideal, modern weight-loss aids, and early on diet-plan business people built selections and fortunes around pleasurable dieting made possible by artificial sweeteners .NutraSweet, Splenda, and their predecessors have liked tremendous success by guaranteeing that People in america, especially women, can "have their cake and eat it too," but Clear Pleasures argues that these "special cheats" have fostered troubling and unsustainable diet plan and that the pledges of artificial sweeteners are eventually too good to be true.
