We want to know what's the sweet spot between eight and 12?

The sweetener was being evaluated for incorporation into non food items, such as toothpaste, mouthwash, throat lozenges and cough medicine.

In the field of consumer health, the Committee noted that tagatose, a natural alternative to table sugar and artificial sweeteners, was providing a safe sweetener for diabetics without causing dental cavities or tooth decay.

What we do is you make up a big experimental batch of Pepsi, at every degree of sweetness eight percent, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, all the way up to 12 and we try this out with thousands of people, and we plot the results on a curve, and we take the most popular concentration. Right? Really simple.

History Carrots have been used in sweet cakes since the medieval period, during which time sweeteners were scarce and expensive, while carrots, which contain more sugar than any other vegetable besides the sugar beet, were much easier to come by and were used to make sweet desserts.