NutraSweet Developer Crossword Clue

NutraSweet Developer Crossword Clue. Holy Moly! Crossword at Chicago Tribune on 21 May 2017 By Agnes Davidson and C.C. Burnikel Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

The answer is SEARLE

The NutraSweet Company is an American nutrient company that produces and markets NutraSweet, their trademarked brand name for the artificial sweeteners aspartame and neotame.

The NutraSweet Company states that its product is used in more than 5,000 products and consumed by some 250 million people worldwide.

Aspartame was invented by chemists at G. D. Searle & Company in 1965. Searle was bought by Monsanto in 1985. In March 2000, Monsanto, which was then a subsidiary of the Pharmacia corporation, sold NutraSweet to the private equity firm J.W. Childs Associates.