Empty Pleasures : The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda /

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From the Publisher: Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in America, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Peña, Carolyn Thomas de la
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Gesundheitsgefährdung
Süssstoffindustrie
Aspartam
Cyclamatderivate
Saccharin
Diätetisches Lebensmittel
Süssstoff
Nonnutritive sweeteners.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Food Science.
Édulcorants de synthese > Histoire.
Weight Loss > history
Diet, Reducing > history
Saccharin > history
Nonnutritive sweeteners > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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