NutraSweet

the NutraSweet Company

Type	Private (subsidiary of J.W. Childs Associates)
Predecessor	G.D. Searle
Founded	1985, as a division of Monsanto Company
Headquarters	St. Louis, Illinois, USA
Key people	Craig R. Petray, Chief Executive Officer
Products	aspartame
Website	www.nutrasweet.com

The NutraSweet Company makes and sells Nutrasweet, their trademarked brand name for the artificial sweetener aspartame, and Neotame.

Aspartame was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter, a chemist working for G.D. Searle & Company. Aspartame has gained regulatory approvals, after applying for fifteen years, permitting its sale in more than 100 countries. Despite losing market share in recent years to sucralose,^[1][2] the NutraSweet Company states that its product is used in more than 5,000 products and consumed by some 250 million people worldwide.^[3]

Robert B. Shapiro was Chairman and CEO of the Nutrasweet Company from 1982 to 1990. In March 2000, Monsanto, which was then a subsidiary of the Pharmacia corporation, sold NutraSweet to the private equity firm J.W. Childs.^[4]

See also

• Aspartame
• Aspartame controversy
• Excitotoxicity
• Merisant, a different company that also makes sugar substitutes (including Equal, another aspartame-based product)
• Sugar substitute
• Sweet'n Low

References

1. ^ John Schmeltzer (2 December 2004). "Equal fights to get even as Splenda looks sweet]" (subscription required). Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0412020391dec02,1,2234783.story?coll=chi-business-hed. Retrieved 2007-07-04. 
2. ^ Carney, By Beth (2005-01-19). "It's Not All Sweetness for Splenda". BusinessWeek: Daily Briefing. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2005/nf20050119_5391_db014.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-05. 
3. ^ NutraSweet.com
4. ^ the NutraSweet Company. "NutraSweet Company: Company Profile". http://www.nutrasweet.com/company.asp. Retrieved 2009-05-18. 

External links

• NutraSweet official Web site