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A sweetener is a food additive
Food additive

Food additives are substances added to food to preserve flavour or improve its taste and appearance.Some additives have been used for centuries; for example, preserving food by pickling , edible salting, as with bacon, preserving sweets or using sulfur dioxide as in some wines....
 which adds the basic taste of sweetness
Sweetness

Sweet is one of the five basic tastes and is almost universally regarded as a pleasure experience. Foods rich in simple carbohydrates such as sugar are those most commonly associated with sweetness, although there are other natural and artificial compounds that are much sweeter, some of which have been used as sugar substitutes for those wi...
 to a food; artificial sweeteners are sugar substitute
Sugar substitute

A sugar substitute is a food additive that duplicates the effect of sugar in taste, but usually has less food energy. Some sugar substitutes are natural and some are synthetic....
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A sweetener is a food additive
Food additive

Food additives are substances added to food to preserve flavour or improve its taste and appearance.Some additives have been used for centuries; for example, preserving food by pickling , edible salting, as with bacon, preserving sweets or using sulfur dioxide as in some wines....
 which adds the basic taste of sweetness
Sweetness

Sweet is one of the five basic tastes and is almost universally regarded as a pleasure experience. Foods rich in simple carbohydrates such as sugar are those most commonly associated with sweetness, although there are other natural and artificial compounds that are much sweeter, some of which have been used as sugar substitutes for those wi...
 to a food; artificial sweeteners are sugar substitute
Sugar substitute

A sugar substitute is a food additive that duplicates the effect of sugar in taste, but usually has less food energy. Some sugar substitutes are natural and some are synthetic....
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Nutritive sweeteners


  • Sugar alcohol
    Sugar alcohol

    A sugar alcohol is a hydrogenation form of carbohydrate, whose carbonyl group has been reduced to a primary or secondary hydroxyl group . Sugar alcohols have the general formula Hn+1H, whereas sugars have HnHCO....
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  • Honey
    Honey

    Honey is a sweet fluid produced by honey bees , and derived from the nectar of flowers. According to the United States National Honey Board and various international food regulations, "honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance?this includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners...
  • Fruit
    Fruit

    The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
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  • Syrups, including
    • Maple syrup
      Maple syrup

      Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees. In Canada and the United States it is most often eaten with waffles and pancakes. It is sometimes used as an ingredient in baking, the making of candy, preparing desserts, or as a sugar source and flavoring agent in making beer....
    • Birch syrup
      Birch syrup

      Birch syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of birch trees, and used in much the same way as maple syrup. It is used for pancake or waffle syrup, to make candies, as an ingredient in sauces, glazes, and dressings, and as a flavoring in ice cream, beer, wine, and soft drinks....
    • Pine syrup
    • Hickory syrup
    • Poplar syrup
    • Palm syrup
      Palm syrup

      Miel de palma is an edible sweet syrup produced from the sap of a number of Arecaceae. It is produced in the Canary Islands, coastal regions of South America, and southeast Asia....
    • Sugar beet syrup
    • Sorghum syrup
    • Corn syrup
      Corn syrup

      Corn syrup is a syrup, made using cornstarch as a feedstock, and composed mainly of glucose. A series of two enzyme reactions are used to convert the cornstarch to corn syrup....
    • Cane syrup
    • Golden syrup
      Golden syrup

      Golden syrup is a thick, amber-colored form of inverted sugar syrup, made in the process of refining sugar cane juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid....
    • Barley malt syrup
      Barley malt syrup

      Barley malt syrup is a sweetener produced from sprouted barley, containing approximately 65 percent maltose, 30 percent complex carbohydrate, 3% protein....
    • Molasses
      Molasses

      Molasses is a thick by-product from the processing of the sugar beet or sugar cane into sugar. The word molasses comes from the Portuguese language word mela?o, which comes from "meli", the Greek word for "honey"....
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    • Brown rice syrup
      Brown rice syrup

      Brown rice syrup, also known as rice syrup, is a sweetener derived by culturing cooked rice with enzymes to break down the starches, then straining off the liquid and cooking it until the desired consistency is reached....
    • Agave syrup
      Agave syrup

      Agave syrup is a sweetener commercially produced in Mexico, from several species of agave, including Tequila agave , and the Salmiana, Green, Grey, Thorny, and Rainbow varieties....
    • Yacon syrup
      Yacon syrup

      Yac?n syrup is a sweetening agent extracted from the tuberous roots of the yac?n plant indigenous to the Andes mountains.It was used by the Incas....


Non-nutritive sweeteners


  • Acesulfame potassium
    Acesulfame potassium

    Acesulfame potassium is a calorie-free artificial sweetener, also known as Acesulfame K or Ace K , and marketed under the trade names Sunett and Sweet One....
    , also known as Sunett
  • Alitame
    Alitame

    Alitame is an artificial sweetener developed by Pfizer in the early 1980s and currently marketed in some countries under the brand name Aclame....
    , also known as Aclame
  • Aspartame
    Aspartame

    Aspartame is the name for an artificial, non-saccharide sweetener, aspartyl-phenylalanine-1-methyl ester; that is, a methyl ester of the dipeptide of the amino acids aspartic acid and phenylalanine....
    , also known as Equal or Nutrasweet
  • Cyclamate
    Cyclamate

    Cyclamate is an artificial sweetener that was discovered in 1937 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by graduate student Michael Sveda....
  • Glycyrrhizin
    Glycyrrhizin

    Glycyrrhizin is the main sweetener from liquorice root that is 30–50 times as potent as sucrose . Pure glycyrrhizin is odorless.Chemically, glycyrrhizin is a triterpenoid saponin glycoside of glycyrrhizic acid....
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  • Neotame
    Neotame

    Neotame is an artificial sweetener made by NutraSweet that is between 8,000 and 13,000 times sweeter than sucrose . Neotame is moderately heat stable and extremely potent, and is considered to be of no danger to those suffering from phenylketonuria, as it does not metabolism into phenylalanine....
  • Perillartine
    Perillartine

    Perillartine, also known as perillartin and perilla sugar, is a sweetener that is about 2000 times as sweet as sucrose. It is mainly used in Japan....
  • Saccharin
    Saccharin

    Saccharin is an artificial sweetener. The basic substance, benzoic sulfinide, has effectively no food energy and is much sweeter than sucrose, but has an unpleasant bitter or metallic aftertaste, especially at high concentrations....
    , also known as Sweet 'n' Low
  • Stevioside
  • Sucralose
    Sucralose

    Sucralose is a zero-calorie sugar substitute artificial sweetener. In the European Union, it is also known under the E number E955. Sucralose is approximately 600 times as Sweetness as sucrose , twice as sweet as saccharin, and 3.3 times as sweet as aspartame....
    , also known as SucraPlus and Splenda
  • Sugar of lead, also known as Lead(II) acetate (obsolete due to excessive toxicity)
  • Inulin
    Inulin

    Inulins are a group of naturally occurring polysaccharides produced by many types of plants. They belong to a class of Dietary fibers known as fructans....