Nutrasweet

The NutraSweet Company is an American nutrient company that produces and markets NutraSweet Neotame, their trademarked brand name for the high-intensity sweetener neotame. The NutraSweet Company is an American nutrient company that produces and markets NutraSweet Neotame, their trademarked brand name for the high-intensity sweetener neotame. The company states that neotame is used in more than 1,100 products and consumed by some 150 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. In July 2018 Manus Bio Inc. bought the former NutraSweet plant in Augusta, Georgia with plans to reopen the plant and manufacture a zero-calorie natural sweetener.