Saccharin
A metallic tasting chemical food additive approximately 300-400 times sweeter than sugar. Prior to its widespread discontinuation [1] in the 1990's, saccharin was used to sweeten no calorie drinks such as Tab, Diet Dr. Pepper, and Crystal Pepsi. A heat-stable substance, saccharin does not react to other ingredients and is essentially non-perishable. As such, water tables around saccharin manufacturing plants and distribution centers have been found to contain high quantities of the chemical. Moreover, bees like it.
- ↑ Following a since-discredited scientific study in which lab rats were fed a mono-diet consisting solely of around 150 times their body weight in saccharin a day.