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  1. 🦠 Oh, wow, saccharin—everyone's favorite diet drink additive—suddenly moonlights as a microbial ninja against antibiotic resistance! Who knew our sweet-savvy grandmas were one step ahead of Big Pharma all along? 😂🍬
    brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/n #saccharin #antibioticresistance #dietdrinks #microbiology #BigPharma #sweettooth #HackerNews #ngated

  2. EFSA: #Saccharin has been used to sweeten foods & drinks for over 100 years. It does not cause DNA damage and is safe for human consumption, even with an increased acceptable daily intake. Still, as all food additives, it must be labelled: efsa.europa.eu/en/news/sacchar #foodsafety #health

  3. "Er eilte in sein Chemielabor und leckte an allen Substanzen seiner letzten Versuche, bis er die richtige Probe fand."

    Was man als #Chemiker halt so macht... 🤷

    Artikel:
    "Mit Chemie 500 mal süßer als Zucker: Saccharin"
    heise.de/hintergrund/Zahlen-bi

    #Saccharin #Süßstoff #Chemie

  4. "Most adults only need to eat around 2,000-2,600 calories a day. This is a problem for businesses that want to achieve constant growth. Sweeteners were a way round this – a means by which the multinationals could encourage us to buy more food and drink than we needed, without going over our daily calorie limits." (#Capitalism!)

    Don't worry about sweeteners giving us cancer. Worry about them giving children a "sweet palate" and fucking with our gut biomes & causing diabetes.

    Oh btw did you know that saccharin is a fossil fuel byproduct?

    #health #sugar #diet #aspartame #saccharin #FossilFuels

    getpocket.com/explore/item/the

  5. Not just #aspartame poses a health risk. Avoid artificial sweeteners (E95x, E96x codes). The only reason these additives exist today is because they are extremely cheap for the food industry to manufacture. #CapitalismKills #saccharin #cyclamate #cancer #obesity #exposomics

  6. On February 10, 1846, American chemist Ira Remsen was born. Along with his student Constantin Fahlberg, Remsen discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin working on coal tar derivatives.

    scihi.org/ira-remsen-saccharin

    #chemistry #saccharin #historyofscience