Sweeteners in Food
Sweeteners add sweetness to foods and drinks. This list covers sugars and syrups as well as low- and no-calorie sweeteners such as sugar alcohols and high-intensity sweeteners.
Real Corn Syrup
Real corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into simpler sugars, primarily …
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Candy Jewels: Dextrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar that is chemically identical to glucose. It is derived from corn, and is typically produced …
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Olismart
Olismart is a proprietary blend of natural flavors and sweeteners. It is derived from plant-based sources and is designed to …
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Cane Sugar Crystals
Cane sugar crystals are a form of refined sugar derived from sugarcane. The sugarcane juice is extracted, purified, and then …
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Acesulfame Potassium And Gellan Gum
Acesulfame potassium, often called Ace-K, is an artificial sweetener. It is synthesized from acetoacetic acid and is about 200 times …
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Dextrose And Salt
Dextrose is a simple sugar that is chemically identical to glucose. It is typically made from corn starch through a …
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Cornsyrup
Corn syrup is a thick, sweet liquid made from corn starch. It is produced by breaking down corn starch into …
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Slt
Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol, also called a sugar replacer. It is found naturally in some fruits like apples, pears, …
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Cultured Corn Syrup Solids And Citric Acid
Cultured corn syrup solids are a sweetener made from corn syrup that has undergone fermentation. Citric acid is a weak …
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Treacle Syrup
Treacle is a thick, dark syrup made from sugar cane or sugar beet. It is a byproduct of the sugar …
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Corn Syrup High Fructose Corn Syrup
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made by breaking down corn starch. High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a type of …
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Tapioca Glucose
Tapioca glucose is a sweetener made from tapioca, a starch extracted from the cassava root. The starch is broken down …
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Corn Syrup Water
Corn syrup is a sweet, thick liquid made from the starch of corn. It is produced by breaking down corn …
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Sugar Crystals
Sugar crystals are a form of granulated sugar, typically with larger, coarser particles than regular table sugar. They are made …
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Cane Sugar1
Cane sugar is a type of sugar derived from sugarcane plants. It is produced by crushing the sugarcane to extract …
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Emulsifier And Invert Sugar
Invert sugar is a liquid sweetener made from sucrose (table sugar). It is produced by breaking down sucrose into its …
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Enzyme Modified Stevia Extract
Enzyme-modified stevia extract is a high-intensity sweetener made from stevia leaf extract. It is produced by using enzymes to change …
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Whoppers Malted Milk Balls - Sugar
Sugar is a common term for sweet-tasting carbohydrates, most often referring to sucrose. It is primarily extracted from sugarcane or …
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Crystal Sugar
Crystal sugar, also known as granulated sugar or table sugar, is a common form of sucrose. It is a disaccharide, …
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Natural Honey
Natural honey is a sweet, viscous liquid made by honey bees from the nectar of flowers. Bees collect nectar and …
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Organic Pure Maple Syrup
Organic pure maple syrup is a natural sweetener made from the sap of maple trees, primarily sugar, red, or black …
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Natural Stevia Extract
Natural Stevia Extract is a high-intensity sweetener derived from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, native to South America. …
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Simple Syrup
Simple syrup is a liquid sweetener made by dissolving sugar in water. It is typically prepared by heating equal parts …
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Sugar/glucose-fructose
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in plants like sugarcane and sugar beets. It is …
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White Grain Sorghum Extract
White grain sorghum extract is a sweetener made from the grain sorghum. It is produced by processing the grain to …
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Dried Honey Powder
Dried honey powder is made by removing water from liquid honey. This process concentrates the sugars and other components of …
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Raw Wi Honey
Raw honey is a natural sweetener produced by honeybees from the nectar of flowers. It is minimally filtered and unheated, …
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Drizzle: Sugar
Sugar, commonly known as sucrose or table sugar, is a disaccharide carbohydrate. It is naturally found in many plants and …
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Fructose-glucose Syrup
Fructose-glucose syrup is a liquid sweetener made from the starch of plants, most commonly corn in the United States. It …
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Fruitrim
Fruitrim is a brand name for a blend of fruit and vegetable concentrates. It is made by processing fruits and …
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Quins- Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a sweet carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugarcane …
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Coconut Palm
Coconut palm sugar, often called coconut sugar, is a natural sweetener made from the sap of the coconut palm tree …
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Sanding Sugar: Sugar
Sanding sugar is a type of sugar known for its larger, reflective crystals. It is made from sugarcane or sugar …
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Sait
Sait is a type of sugar, specifically a disaccharide made of glucose and fructose. It is commonly produced from sugarcane …
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Chocolatey Coating: Sugar
Sugar is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is typically extracted from plants like sugarcane or sugar …
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Caramel Popcorn: Corn Syrup
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. It is produced by breaking down the starch into simpler …
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Standardized With Sugar
The phrase "Standardized With Sugar" describes an ingredient, often a fruit preparation or flavoring, that has been blended with sugar …
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Rebaudiana-a
Rebaudiana-a is a high-intensity sweetener derived from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant. It is a purified extract, meaning …
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Rebaudioside M
Rebaudioside M (Reb M) is a sweet compound found naturally in the Stevia rebaudiana plant. It is one of the …
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Mochi Dough Ingredients: Cane Sugar
Cane sugar is a common type of sugar, also known as sucrose, that is extracted from sugarcane plants. The sugarcane …
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Cane Juice Solids
Cane juice solids are a sweetener derived from sugarcane. They are essentially the concentrated sugars and other components left after …
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A Non-nutritive Sweetener
A non-nutritive sweetener, also known as Acesulfame Potassium (Ace-K), is a potassium salt that is about 200 times sweeter than …
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Chocolate Contains: Sugar
Sugar is a sweet carbohydrate that occurs naturally in plants like sugarcane and sugar beets. It is typically refined from …
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Sprinkles: Powdered Sugar
Powdered sugar, also known as confectioners' sugar or icing sugar, is a finely ground form of granulated sugar. It is …
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Organic Concentrated Apple Juice
Organic Concentrated Apple Juice is made from apples that are grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. The juice is extracted …
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Decorating Sugar
Decorating sugar is a type of granulated sugar, typically made from refined cane or beet sugar. It is processed to …
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Cane Mill Molasses
Cane mill molasses is a thick, dark syrup produced during the refining of sugarcane into sugar. It is a byproduct …
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Organic Blue Agave Nectar Syrup
Organic Blue Agave Nectar Syrup is a sweetener derived from the blue agave plant, native to Mexico. The plant's sap …
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Organic Malt Syrup Blend
Organic malt syrup blend is a sweetener made from organic barley malt and other organic grains. The grains are sprouted …
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Filling Corn Syrup
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from the starch of corn. The starch is broken down into sugars, primarily …
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Other ingredient types
Note:
This site presents label data from USDA FoodData Central for general information. It is not medical advice.
Check the package label; formulations change.