In an effort to reduce the increasingly high intake of sugar among the ship and station folk, a very enterprising individual developed fruit candies made with a specially formulated artificial sweetener, designed to sweeten the much favored lollies, but not alter blood sugar or otherwise effect concentration or mental activity, particularly in children.
Their creator, Russel, was quite proud of his recipe, as it was bursting with fruit flavors, and still sweet despite having no sugar. Interested in marketing it to both humans and atevi (as any entrepreneur is interested in doing, of course), he sent a bag of samples to one Bren Cameron, paidhi-aiji, with a request to try them and determine whether or not atevi would consider them kabiu, and whether or not they would have a place in the sweets market.
The paidhi, so presented with such a request, of course took it to the four most important people in his life: his aishid. Being atevi, they would have the desired opinion, and being his body guards, they insisted on trying them first to determine their wholesomeness, with the promise that they would analyze the product and write down their reviews.
It sounded like a reasonable idea at the time.