Did you know that several artificial sweeteners discovery was by accident?

The artificial sweeteners saccharin and aspartame were found accidentally when lab workers doing research that had nothing to do with sweetening put a bit of the test compounds in their mouths and liked what they tasted.

The scientists who discovered sucralose (now sold as Splenda) were originally trying to create an insecticide. An assistant thought he had been instructed to “taste” a compound he’d only been asked to “test.”

A compound called lugduname is the sweetest compound known—more than 200,000 times as sweet as table sugar.