What the heck? Early shades of a nanny state watching your waste-line?Sugarless Sweets?? Sugar Substitutes During WWI
Nope.
Ships.
Of course, it wasn't just ships, but also the need to conserve white sugar for the use in food that was being supplied to the military.
Take a look at the substitutes on the link, it's fascinating. All the substitutes were in fact sugars, just in other forms. I note that as today we have a lot of sugar substitutes that aren't sugar. . .they aren't even all natural.
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