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.
White Syrup
White syrup is a sweet, thick liquid typically made by dissolving sugar in water. It can be composed of various …
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High Maltose Brown Rice Syrup
High maltose brown rice syrup is a sweetener made from brown rice. The rice is cooked and then treated with …
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Confection Sugar
Confectioner's sugar, also known as powdered sugar or icing sugar, is granulated sugar that has been finely ground into a …
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Organic Manuka Honey
Manuka honey is a type of honey produced in New Zealand and Australia from the nectar of the Manuka bush …
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Rice Syrup From Organic Farming
Rice syrup, also known as brown rice syrup, is a sweetener made from organic rice. It is produced by cooking …
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Raw Cane Demerara Sugar
Raw cane demerara sugar is a less refined type of cane sugar. It is produced by crushing sugarcane to extract …
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Melting Wafers: Sugar
Sugar is a simple carbohydrate, most commonly sucrose, extracted from sugarcane or sugar beets. It is a crystalline solid that …
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3.6% Sodium Saccharin
Sodium saccharin is an artificial sweetener that is about 300–400 times sweeter than table sugar. It is synthesized from chemicals …
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Unbleached Sugar
Unbleached sugar is sugar that has undergone less processing than white granulated sugar. It retains some of the natural molasses, …
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Organic Glycerine
Organic glycerine, also called organic glycerin, is a clear, colorless, odorless, viscous liquid. It is a sugar alcohol that can …
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Natural Sugar From Cane & Fruits
Natural sugar from cane and fruits refers to sugars like sucrose, fructose, and glucose that are extracted from sugar cane …
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Dried Cane Juice
Dried cane juice is a sweetener made from the juice of sugar cane. The juice is evaporated to remove water, …
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Dextrose Syrup
Dextrose syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. It is a type of corn syrup that is primarily …
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Ground Dates
Ground dates are made from dried, whole dates that have been ground into a powder or coarse granular form. Dates …
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Organic Coconut Tree Sap
Organic coconut tree sap is a natural sweetener made from the sap of coconut palm blossoms. The sap is collected …
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High Frutose 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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Liquid Sugar Sugar
Liquid sugar is a solution of sugar (sucrose) dissolved in water. It is a common form of sugar used in …
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Organic Isomalto-oligosaccharide
Isomalto-oligosaccharide (IMO) is a type of carbohydrate made of short chains of glucose molecules. It is often produced from starch, …
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Fudge Swirl: Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugarcane …
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Min
Maltitol is a sugar alcohol, a type of carbohydrate that the body digests slowly. It is made from corn or …
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Polyglycitol
Polyglycitol is a sugar alcohol, a type of carbohydrate. It is made by combining glucose molecules, often derived from corn …
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Wondrose Sugar Replacer
Wondrose Sugar Replacer is a blend of sweeteners, primarily erythritol and monk fruit extract. Erythritol is a sugar alcohol produced …
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Glucose Fiber
Glucose fiber, also known as isomalto-oligosaccharides (IMO), is a type of soluble prebiotic fiber. It is typically produced from starch, …
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Isomalt Syrup
Isomalt syrup is a sugar substitute made from beet sugar. It is produced through a multi-step process that involves enzymatic …
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Pure Honeybee Honey
Pure honeybee honey is a sweet, viscous food substance made by honeybees from the nectar of flowers. Bees collect nectar, …
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Glucosefructose Syrup
Glucose-fructose syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn or wheat starch. The starch is broken down into glucose and …
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Made Of: Xylitol
Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in small amounts in fruits and vegetables. It is often produced commercially …
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Monk Juice Concentrate
Monk fruit extract, also known as luo han guo extract, comes from the monk fruit, a small, round fruit native …
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Each: 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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Added Sugars
Added sugars are sugars and syrups that are added to foods or beverages during processing or preparation. They are often …
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Cane Sugar Dextrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar, chemically identical to glucose. When labeled as "cane sugar dextrose," it means the dextrose is …
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Steviol Glycocides
Steviol glycosides are sweet compounds extracted from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant. The extraction process typically involves water …
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Total Sugars And Added Sugars
Total Sugars refers to all sugars present in a food, including those naturally found in ingredients like fruit or milk, …
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Mini Beads Candy: 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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Candy Ingredients: Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugarcane …
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Wheat Extract
Wheat extract is a liquid sweetener made from wheat. It is produced by breaking down wheat starches into simpler sugars …
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Demerara
Demerara is a type of raw cane sugar. It is produced from the first pressing of sugarcane, resulting in large, …
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Invert
Invert sugar is a liquid sweetener made from sucrose, commonly known as table sugar. It is produced by breaking down …
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Candy Sequins: 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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Concentrate Grape Must
Concentrate grape must is made from the juice of grapes that has been reduced by cooking to remove water. This …
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Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup
Partially inverted refiners syrup is a liquid sweetener made from sugar (sucrose). It is created by partially breaking down sucrose …
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Refiners Molasses
Refiners molasses is a byproduct of sugar refining, specifically from sugarcane or sugar beets. It is the thick, dark syrup …
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Caster Sugar
Caster sugar is a fine-grained white sugar, typically made from sugarcane or sugar beets. The sugar crystals are smaller than …
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Natural Cane Juice
Natural cane juice is a sweetener made from the juice of sugarcane. It is typically unrefined or minimally refined, retaining …
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Honey Extract
Honey extract is a concentrated liquid made from honey. It is produced by removing water from honey, which intensifies its …
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Strawberry Jam: Sugar
Sugar, primarily sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is most often extracted from sugarcane or …
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Cupcake: Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted and refined …
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Water And Corn Syrup
Water and corn syrup is a mixture of two common food ingredients. Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from …
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Organic Evaporated Cane Juice Sugar
Organic evaporated cane juice sugar is a sweetener derived from sugar cane. It is produced by pressing sugar cane to …
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Raw Unfiltered Honey
Raw unfiltered honey is honey as it exists in the beehive or obtained by extraction, settling, or straining, without adding …
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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.