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American nutrient company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The NutraSweet Company is an American nutrient company that produces and markets NutraSweet Neotame, their trademarked brand name for the high-intensity sweetener neotame.
Company type | Private (subsidiary of Manus Bio) |
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Predecessor | G. D. Searle & Company |
Founded | 1985, as a division of Monsanto |
Headquarters | Augusta, Georgia, United States |
Key people | Ajikumar Parayil CEO |
Products | neotame |
Website | http://www.neotame.com |
In 2021, NutraSweet was placed 43rd by FoodTalks' list of Top 50 Global Sweetener Companies.[1]
Aspartame was invented by chemists at G. D. Searle & Company in 1965.[2] Searle was bought by Monsanto in 1985.[3] In March 2000, Monsanto, which was then a subsidiary of the Pharmacia corporation, sold NutraSweet to the private equity firm J.W. Childs Associates.[2] In July 2018, Manus Bio Inc. bought the former NutraSweet plant in Augusta, Georgia and reopened the plant to produce the next generation of natural ingredients.[4][5]
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