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"Last Word"-Sweet n'Low 's Sweet Achievement

SUSIE GHARIB: Finally tonight, the next time you put a Sweet 'n Low in your coffee, remember this: the company that makes it, Cumberland Packing, this week churned out its 500 billionth packet of the stuff. The ubiquitous pink packets have been around for almost 50 years and are now found everywhere on the globe. Five hundred bill Sweet 'n Lows would cover the total area of New York City, wrap around the world 792 times and weigh more than 91,000 elephants. But here's the most important statistic about all those packets, Paul, using them saved dieters about 5 1/2 trillion calories.

KANGAS: I wonder if you're aware, Susie, that one packet of Sweet 'n Low has the sweetness equivalent of two teaspoons of sugar.

GHARIB: That's a lot of sugar. That's pretty sweet.

KANGAS: So use a half a packet.

GHARIB: Half a packet.