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.
Lo Han Guo
Lo Han Guo, also known as monk fruit, is a small, round fruit native to Southeast Asia. It is typically …
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Organic Yacon Syrup
Yacon syrup is a sweetener derived from the yacon plant, native to the Andes region of South America. The plant's …
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Each: Sugar
Sugar, commonly known as sucrose, is a carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted and refined from …
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Organic Invert Sugar Syrup
Organic invert sugar syrup is a liquid sweetener made from organic sucrose (sugar). It is produced by breaking down sucrose …
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Icing And Garnish-sugar
Sugar is a common carbohydrate used as a sweetener. It is typically extracted from sugarcane or sugar beets, then purified …
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Sucrose Syrup And Corn Syrup
Sucrose syrup is a solution of sucrose (table sugar) and water. Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made by breaking …
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Reese's Pieces Candy - Sugar
Sugar, often referred to as sucrose, is a carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. Most table sugar is extracted from …
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Grape And Date
Grape and date is a sweetener made from the natural sugars found in grapes and dates. These fruits are processed …
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Ii
Ii is a sweetener derived from the stevia plant. It is produced by extracting and purifying steviol glycosides from the …
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Pre-made Icings: Powdered Sugar
Powdered sugar, also known as confectioners' sugar or icing sugar, is finely ground granulated sugar mixed with a small amount …
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Manuka Honey
Manuka honey is a type of honey produced by bees that pollinate the native Manuka bush (Leptospermum scoparium) found in …
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Corn Syrup Powder
Corn syrup powder is a dried form of corn syrup, a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. The corn syrup …
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Organic Dried Sugar Cane Syrup
Organic Dried Sugar Cane Syrup is a sweetener made from the juice of sugar cane. The juice is evaporated to …
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Pure Maple Sugar
Pure maple sugar is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees, primarily sugar maple, red maple, and black …
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Sweet
Sweeteners are food ingredients added to provide a sweet taste. They can be natural, like sugars, or artificial, created through …
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Organic Sugar Cane
Organic sugar cane is a type of sugarcane grown without the use of synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. Sugarcane is a …
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Mini Jellies: 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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Jelly Beans: Sugar
Sugar, specifically sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugarcane or sugar …
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Frosting Mix: Confectioners' Sugar
Confectioners' sugar is a finely ground white sugar with a small amount of cornstarch added to prevent clumping. It is …
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Raw Wildflower Honey
Raw wildflower honey is a natural sweetener produced by honeybees from the nectar of various wildflowers. The bees collect nectar …
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Sugar Sugar
Sugar, chemically known as sucrose, is a disaccharide made of glucose and fructose. It is primarily obtained from sugar cane …
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Organic Agave Powder
Organic agave powder is a sweetener derived from the agave plant, primarily Agave tequilana. It is made by processing the …
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Cultured Corn Syrup
Cultured corn syrup is a sweetener made from corn starch. It is produced by treating corn starch with enzymes to …
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Yeast Sugar
Yeast sugar is a common name for dextrose, a simple sugar derived from corn starch. It is chemically identical to …
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Powdered Sugar With Corn Starch
Powdered sugar with corn starch is a finely ground form of granulated sugar (sucrose) that has a small amount of …
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Organic Cane Molasses
Organic cane molasses is a thick, dark syrup produced during the refining of sugarcane into sugar. It is a byproduct …
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Non-gmo Tapioca Syrup
Tapioca syrup is a liquid sweetener made from the starch of the cassava root. The starch is broken down into …
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Maltitol Powder
Maltitol powder is a sugar alcohol, a type of carbohydrate that the body digests slowly. It is made from corn …
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Chocolate Ingredients: Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is commercially produced by extracting …
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Organic Coconut Sugar Crystals
Organic coconut sugar crystals are produced from the sap of coconut palm blossoms. The sap is heated to evaporate most …
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Dried Rice Syrup
Dried rice syrup, also known as rice malt or rice extract, is a sweetener made from cooked rice that has …
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Organic Cassava Root Syrup
Organic cassava root syrup is a sweetener made from the starch of the cassava root, a starchy tuber native to …
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Monk Fruit Powder
Monk fruit powder is a sweetener derived from the monk fruit, a small, round fruit native to Southeast Asia. The …
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Natural Stevia Leaf
Stevia leaf extract comes from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, native to South America. The sweet compounds, called …
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Sorghum Extract
Sorghum extract is a liquid sweetener made from the grain sorghum. The grain is milled, cooked, and then enzymes are …
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Powdered Honey
Powdered honey is dried honey. It is made by removing the water from liquid honey, often through spray drying or …
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Isomalto-oligosaccharide Syrup
Isomalto-oligosaccharide (IMO) syrup is a type of carbohydrate made from short chains of sugar molecules. It is typically produced from …
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Sucralose And Calcium Carbonate
Sucralose is an artificial sweetener made from sugar through a process that replaces some hydrogen-oxygen groups with chlorine atoms. Calcium …
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Stevia Extract Sweetener
Stevia extract sweetener is a high-intensity sweetener derived from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant. The sweet compounds, called …
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Sugar And Natural Flavor
Sugar is a common carbohydrate, typically sucrose derived from sugar cane or sugar beets, or glucose and fructose from corn. …
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Organic Dehydrated Cane Sugar
Organic dehydrated cane sugar is a sweetener made from the juice of organically grown sugarcane. The juice is evaporated to …
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Sugar Or High-fructose Corn Syrup
Sugar, or sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in fruits, vegetables, and grains. It is commercially produced from sugarcane …
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Nulomoline
Nulomoline is a mixture of glucose and fructose, commonly known as invert sugar. It is produced by breaking down sucrose …
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Caramelized Cane Sugar
Caramelized cane sugar is made by heating cane sugar until it turns brown and develops a rich, slightly bitter flavor. …
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Molasses Corn Syrup
Molasses corn syrup is a sweetener made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into simpler sugars, including glucose …
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White Coating: Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is commercially produced by extracting …
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Sugar Granulated
Granulated sugar is a refined form of sucrose, a carbohydrate that is naturally found in plants like sugarcane and sugar …
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Sugar Cane Juice
Sugar cane juice is the liquid extracted from pressed sugar cane stalks. It is a natural sweetener that contains sucrose …
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Seasoning Dextrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar, chemically identical to glucose. It is derived from corn or other plant starches and is …
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White Fudge: Sugar
Sugar, specifically sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in plants like sugarcane and sugar beets. It is extracted, purified, …
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Note:
This site presents label data from USDA FoodData Central for general information. It is not medical advice.
Check the package label; formulations change.