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A sweet tale: the son who reinvented sugar to help diabetic dad

7 mins | Jun 3, 2019

Senay Boztas, writing in the Guardian, looks at Javier Larragoiti, the young chemist who, motivated by his diabetic dad, who is buying waste from local farmers, to produce a fermentation-based sugar alternative - and it looks promising.

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