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Empty pleasures : the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda / Carolyn de la Peña.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peña, Carolyn Thomas de la.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nonnutritive sweeteners--History.
- Nonnutritive sweeteners.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780807834091
- 0807834092
- OCLC:
- 540643997
- Publisher Number:
- 99939891485
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