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.
Malt Syrup And Yeast
Malt syrup is a sweetener made from malted barley. The barley grains are sprouted, dried, and then mashed with hot …
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Caramel Filling Corn Syrup
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. It is produced by breaking down corn starch into simpler …
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Brown Sugar Sugar
Brown sugar is granulated white sugar with molasses added. The molasses gives brown sugar its characteristic color and flavor. It …
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Evaporated Cane Juice Sugar
Evaporated cane juice sugar is a sweetener made from sugarcane juice. The juice is heated and filtered to remove impurities, …
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Sorbitol Humectant
Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in some fruits, like apples and berries. It is commercially produced by …
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Marshmallow: Glucose-fructose Syrup
Glucose-fructose syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into glucose and fructose, which …
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Seasoning Corn Syrup Solids
Corn syrup solids are a dry powder made from corn syrup. Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn …
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Naturally Occurring Erythritol
Erythritol is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in some fruits and fermented foods. It is produced commercially through the …
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Plant-based Glycerin
Plant-based glycerin, also known as glycerol, is a clear, colorless, odorless, and viscous liquid. It is a sugar alcohol that …
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Rice Malt Syrup
Rice malt syrup, also known as rice syrup or brown rice syrup, is a sweetener made from fermented rice. It …
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High-fructose Corn Syrup Or Sugar
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch, where enzymes convert some of the glucose into …
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Natural Glycerin
Glycerin, also known as glycerol, is a simple alcohol. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid that is sweet-tasting and …
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Icings: Powdered Sugar
Powdered sugar, also known as confectioners' sugar or icing sugar, is a finely ground granulated sugar. It is made by …
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Pumpkin Candy: Sugar
Sugar, often called sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted and refined from …
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Non Gmo Brown Sugar
Brown sugar is a type of sugar made from sugar cane or sugar beets. It gets its characteristic color and …
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Organic Palm Sugar
Palm sugar is a natural sweetener made from the sap of various palm trees, such as coconut, date, or palmyra …
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Dressing: Sugar
Sugar, specifically sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is typically extracted and refined from sugarcane …
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Cupcake Mix: Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in plants like sugarcane and sugar beets. It is …
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Water And The Following: Corn Syrup
Water is a clear, odorless, tasteless liquid essential for life. Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch …
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Date Juice Concentrate
Date juice concentrate is made from the juice of dates, a fruit from the date palm tree. The juice is …
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Suagr
Sugar, commonly known as sucrose, is a carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugar cane …
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Organic Tapioca Dextrose
Organic tapioca dextrose is a type of sugar derived from the starch of the cassava root, also known as tapioca. …
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Confectionary Sugar
Confectioners' sugar is a finely ground granulated sugar, also known as powdered sugar or icing sugar. It is made by …
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Sucrose Syrup
Sucrose syrup is a liquid sweetener made by dissolving sucrose (table sugar) in water. Sucrose is a disaccharide, meaning it's …
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Frosting Mix: Confectioner's Sugar
Confectioner's sugar, also known as powdered sugar or icing sugar, is finely ground granulated sugar mixed with a small amount …
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Marshmallow Drops
Marshmallow drops are small, soft, chewy confections made primarily from sugar, corn syrup, and gelatin. They are often flavored with …
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Fractionated Palm Kernel Glucose
Fractionated palm kernel glucose is a type of sugar derived from palm kernel oil. It is produced by breaking down …
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Cherry Ingredients: Dextrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar, a type of carbohydrate. It is chemically identical to glucose, which is found naturally in …
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Sugar Glaze
Sugar glaze is a sweet, often shiny, coating applied to baked goods. It is typically made from powdered sugar mixed …
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Blue Agave Syrup
Blue agave syrup is a sweetener made from the blue agave plant, native to Mexico. It is produced by extracting …
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Cane Juice Molasses
Cane juice molasses is a thick, dark syrup produced during the refining of sugarcane into sugar. It is a byproduct …
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Birch Xylitol
Birch xylitol is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in small amounts in fruits and vegetables. It is typically made …
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Evaporated Cane
Evaporated cane juice is a sweetener made from the juice of sugarcane. The juice is heated and spun in a …
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High Fructose Corn Syrup And Concentrated Orange Juice
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into glucose, …
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Crystallized Cane Juice
Crystallized cane juice is a sweetener made from the juice of sugarcane. The juice is heated and then allowed to …
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A Sweetener
A sweetener is a substance that adds sweetness to foods and drinks. Most sweeteners are carbohydrates, like sugar (sucrose), but …
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Organic Date Syrup
Organic date syrup is a natural sweetener made from whole dates. The dates are typically pitted, cooked, and then pressed …
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Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
Extra fine granulated sugar is a highly refined form of sucrose, typically derived from sugar cane or sugar beets. It …
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Dried Maple Syrup
Dried maple syrup is a powdered form of maple syrup, made by removing water from liquid maple syrup. It retains …
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Gumdrops: Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugar …
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Luo Han Guo Fruit Extract
Luo han guo fruit extract, also known as monk fruit extract, comes from the monk fruit, a small, round fruit …
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Fruity Gummies: Sugar
Sugar, chemically known as sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted and refined …
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Sugar From Beets
Sugar from beets, also known as beet sugar, is sucrose that is chemically identical to sugar from sugarcane. It is …
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Organic Coconut Blossom Nectar
Organic coconut blossom nectar is a sweetener made from the sap of coconut palm blossoms. The sap is tapped from …
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Fair Trade Organic Coconut Sugar
Coconut sugar is a sweetener made from the sap of the coconut palm tree's flower buds. The sap is heated …
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Fair-trade Cane Sugar
Fair-trade cane sugar is a sweetener derived from sugarcane. The 'fair-trade' label indicates that the sugar was produced, traded, and …
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Sweetening Blend
A sweetening blend is a mixture of different sweeteners, often including both high-intensity sweeteners and bulk sweeteners. These blends are …
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Organic Isomalto-oligosaccharides
Isomalto-oligosaccharides (IMO) are a type of carbohydrate, often called a prebiotic fiber. They are typically produced from starch, commonly from …
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Chicory Fibre Syrup
Chicory fiber syrup is a sweetener made from the chicory root. The root is processed to extract its inulin fiber, …
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Twizzlers Twists Strawberry Candy - 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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This site presents label data from USDA FoodData Central for general information. It is not medical advice.
Check the package label; formulations change.