Sucralose - From Accidental Discovery to a Global Sweetener
The story of sucralose begins not with a deliberate quest for a new sweetener, but with a happy accident in a laboratory. It was 1976 when scientists at Tate & Lyle, a British company renowned for sugar refining, were collaborating with researchers at Queen Elizabeth College in London. One of the researchers, a young chemist named Shashikant Phadnis, was tasked with "testing" a new compound.