Who invented diet soda




















During 80s and 90s, diet soda drinks remained in popularity, with many variations of all these popular drinks receiving new tastes and flavors. In addition to traditional diet soda drinks, several alcohol companies elected to release sugar-free or "diet" alcoholic products on the market. Today, manufacturers of diet drinks use artificial sweeteners to achieve similar taste, mouth-feel and aftertaste of regular soda drinks, although many users report that they can detect significant differences between these two types of drink products.

Most popular artificial sweetener today is Aspartame also known as NutraSweet which is present in Diet Coke and many other diet products that want to offer alternative to sugar.

Plus, at least according to initial tests, it had no adverse side effects. In fact, doctors started prescribing saccharin as a catch-all treatment, for things like headaches, nausea, etc. However, it was not without its detractors. Harvey Washington Wiley, over saccharin. However, by the s, saccharin started declining in popularity.

Research began indicating that large doses of saccharin led to bladder tumors and cancer in mice. Later, it was revealed that high PH levels found in mice, and not humans, reacted differently with saccharin than human body chemistry. Once the exact cause of the tumors was determined, exhaustive tests were done to see if the same thing was happening with primates. In the end, the results came up completely and overwhelmingly negative.

Thanks to this, in , saccharin was removed from U. The next year, both the state of California and the U. Food and Drug Administration removed it from their list of cancer causing substances. In , Hyman Kirsch opened his first soda store in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

An immigrant from Crimea, Kirsch thought his primarily Jewish neighborhood would be delighted by the fruit-flavored seltzer he used to make while still in the old country.

He was right and Kirsch Beverages Inc. If you have something to share that would enrich our knowledge about this object, use the form below. After review, selected comments will appear on this page along with the name you provide. Please note that we generally cannot answer questions about the history, rarity, or value of your personal artifacts.

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