Food Science & Cooking · Recorded milestone
Aspartame sweetener
Recorded year1981
G.D. Searle's sweetener, 200 times sweeter than sugar and found by chance in 1965, is approved in the US and soon fills diet sodas.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.