2001, C. Keith Conners, Feeding the Brain: How Foods Affect Children, page 38,Though reluctant to further expose him to aspartame, I had little trouble persuading Jamie's mother to carry out a double-blind trial in order to more rigorously document her son's aberrant response to aspartame.
2007, Nina Redman, Food Safety: A Reference Handbook, page 37.Aspartame, sold under the brand NutraSweet, was discovered accidentally by a scientist at Searle in 1965 who was testing new drugs for gastric ulcers and licked his fingers before picking up a piece of paper.
2008, Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer, Eleanor Noss Whitney, Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies, Volume 10, page 143,In powdered form, aspartame is mixed with lactose, so a 1-gram packet contains 4 calories.
