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.
Stabilizer: Sorbitol
Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in some fruits like apples and pears. It is commercially produced by …
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Sorbitol Powder
Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in some fruits, like apples and pears. It is often produced commercially …
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Caramel Dip: High Fructose Corn Syrup
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into glucose, …
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Dried Malted Barley Extract
Dried malted barley extract is a sweetener made from barley grains that have been allowed to germinate (malted) and then …
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Sugar Honey
Sugar honey is a sweetener made by combining sugar with honey. Honey is a natural sweetener produced by bees from …
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Cane Syrup Solids
Cane syrup solids are a dried sweetener made from the juice of sugarcane. The juice is concentrated by boiling to …
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Chocolaty Coating: Sugar
Sugar is a sweet-tasting carbohydrate that occurs naturally in plants like sugarcane and sugar beets. It is typically refined from …
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Stevia Leaf Extract And Monk Fruit Extract
Stevia leaf extract and monk fruit extract are natural high-intensity sweeteners derived from plants. Stevia comes from the leaves of …
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Milk Chocolate Coating: Sugar
Sugar is a common term for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates. The most common type, sucrose, is primarily sourced from sugar cane …
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Raw Organic Agave Nectar
Agave nectar is a natural sweetener extracted from the core of the agave plant, which is native to Mexico and …
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Organic Raw Agave
Organic raw agave is a sweetener derived from the agave plant, native to Mexico and Central America. It is produced …
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Organic Rice Syrup Powder
Organic rice syrup powder is a sweetener made from organic brown rice. The rice is cooked, fermented to break down …
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Sweetener: Sucralose
Sucralose is an artificial sweetener made from sugar. It is about 600 times sweeter than sugar and is not broken …
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Luo Han Guo Extract
Luo Han Guo extract, also known as monk fruit extract, is a natural sweetener derived from the monk fruit, a …
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Sugar Molasses
Molasses is a thick, dark syrup produced during the refining of sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. It is a …
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Glucose - Fructose Syrup From Wheat
Glucose-fructose syrup from wheat is a liquid sweetener made by processing wheat starch. Enzymes break down the starch into a …
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High Fructose Corn Syrup Water
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a liquid sweetener made from corn. It is produced by processing corn starch to …
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Chocolate Chunks - Sugar
Sugar, specifically sucrose, is a common carbohydrate that provides energy. It is naturally found in many plants and is primarily …
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All Natural Pure Cane Sugar
Pure cane sugar is a common type of sugar, chemically known as sucrose. It is extracted from sugar cane plants, …
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Marshmallow: Corn Syrup
Corn syrup is a food syrup made from the starch of corn. It is produced by breaking down corn starch …
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Date Nectar
Date nectar is a sweetener made from dates, a fruit that grows on date palm trees. To make it, dates …
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Potassium Acesulfame
Potassium acesulfame is an artificial sweetener. It is synthesized from acetoacetic acid and is about 200 times sweeter than sugar. …
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Sorbitol Syrup Humectant
Sorbitol syrup is a liquid sweetener made from sorbitol, a sugar alcohol. It is produced commercially by hydrogenating sugars derived …
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Organic Brown Cane Sugar
Organic brown cane sugar is a type of sugar derived from sugarcane that has been grown and processed according to …
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Red: Sugar
Sugar is a common sweet-tasting carbohydrate primarily extracted from sugarcane or sugar beets. It is produced by crushing the plants …
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Granulated Brown Sugar
Granulated brown sugar is a type of sugar product with a distinctive brown color and caramel-like flavor. It is either …
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Organic Raw Agave Nectar
Organic raw agave nectar is a sweetener derived from the agave plant, native to Mexico and the southwestern United States. …
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Fermented Corn Sugar
Fermented corn sugar, also known as dextrose, is a simple sugar derived from corn. It is produced through a process …
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Sugarcane Juice
Sugarcane juice is the liquid extracted from the stalks of the sugarcane plant. It is obtained by crushing the sugarcane …
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Toppings: Sugar
Sugar, chemically known as sucrose, is a carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugar cane …
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Evaporated Organic Cane Juice
Evaporated organic cane juice is a sweetener made from the juice of organically grown sugarcane. The juice is heated to …
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Natural Brown Sugar
Natural brown sugar is a type of sugar that gets its color and flavor from molasses. It is made from …
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Cake Mix Ingredients: Sugar
Sugar is a type of carbohydrate that tastes sweet. The most common kind, called sucrose, comes from plants like sugarcane …
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White Confectionery Coating: Sugar
White confectionery coating is a sweet, usually white, food product used to cover or drizzle on snacks and desserts. It …
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Donut Coating: Powdered Sugar
Powdered sugar, also known as confectioners' sugar or icing sugar, is finely ground granulated sugar. The fine texture is achieved …
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Ready-to-use White Icing: Sugar
Sugar, commonly known as sucrose, is a sweet-tasting carbohydrate that is soluble in water. It is primarily obtained from sugarcane …
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Stevia Reb M
Stevia Reb M is a high-purity steviol glycoside, a sweet compound found naturally in the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana …
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Malt Tapioca Blend Non-gmo
Malt tapioca blend is a mixture of maltodextrin derived from tapioca and maltodextrin derived from malted grains, typically barley. Maltodextrin …
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Invert Cane Sugar Syrup
Invert cane sugar syrup is a liquid sweetener made from cane sugar. It is produced by breaking down sucrose into …
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Liquid Polydextrose
Liquid polydextrose is a type of soluble fiber made from glucose, sorbitol, and citric acid. It is produced by heating …
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Stevia And Monk Fruit Extract
Stevia extract comes from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, native to South America. Monk fruit extract comes from …
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Light Molasses
Light molasses is a sweetener made from sugarcane or sugar beet juice. It is produced during the sugar refining process, …
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Splenda
Splenda is a brand name for sucralose, an artificial sweetener. It is made from sugar through a process that replaces …
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Rebaudioside A From Stevia Rebaudiana Leaf
Rebaudioside A is a sweet compound extracted from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, native to South America. It …
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Organic Brown Rice Syrup Solids
Organic brown rice syrup solids are made from organic brown rice. The rice is cooked, then enzymes are used to …
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Natural Sweetener Blend
A natural sweetener blend is a mixture of sweeteners derived from natural sources. These can include plant-based sugars like stevia …
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See Unit Container For Manufacturer's Identity
This ingredient is a synthetic sweetener that is about 200 times sweeter than sugar. It is made from a chemical …
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Rolo Candy - Sugar
Sugar, specifically sucrose, is a carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is most commonly extracted from sugarcane or sugar …
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Kit Kat Wafer Bar Miniatures - Sugar
Sugar is a common carbohydrate, a type of simple sugar. It is naturally found in fruits and vegetables and is …
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Almond Joy Candy Bar - Corn Syrup
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from the starch of corn. The starch is broken down into simpler sugars, …
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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.