Empty pleasures : the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda /
PenÌa, Carolyn Thomas de la.
Empty pleasures : the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda / by Carolyn de la PenÌa. - 1st ed. - Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c2010. - 279 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780807834091 (cloth : alk. paper)
2010006638
Nonnutritive sweeteners--History.
TP422 / .P46 2010
664/.5
Empty pleasures : the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda / by Carolyn de la PenÌa. - 1st ed. - Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c2010. - 279 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780807834091 (cloth : alk. paper)
2010006638
Nonnutritive sweeteners--History.
TP422 / .P46 2010
664/.5