An 1886 edition of Scientific American went into further detail about Fahlberg’s discovery, with the Russian himself speaking about the circumstances that had first led him to isolate saccharin. He explained, “I sat down, broke a piece of bread and put it to my lips. It tasted unspeakably sweet. I did not ask why it was so – probably because I thought it was some cake or sweetmeat.”
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