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.
Wheat Sugar Syrup
Wheat sugar syrup, also known as wheat glucose syrup or wheat maltodextrin, is a sweetener made from wheat starch. The …
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Caramel Sauce: 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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Coating: Dextrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar, a type of carbohydrate. It is chemically identical to glucose, the sugar found in your …
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Icings: Icing Sugar
Icing sugar is a finely ground white sugar, also known as confectioners' sugar or powdered sugar. It is made by …
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Swerve
Swerve is a brand of non-GMO sweetener made from erythritol, a sugar alcohol, and oligosaccharides, which are short-chain carbohydrates. Erythritol …
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100% New Zealand Honey
100% New Zealand Honey is honey produced by bees in New Zealand. It is made when bees collect nectar from …
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Dextrose Corn Syrup
Dextrose is a simple sugar, also known as D-glucose, that is chemically identical to glucose. It is commonly derived from …
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Invertsugar
Invert sugar is a liquid sweetener made from sucrose (table sugar). It is created by breaking down sucrose into two …
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High Fructose Corn Syrup And Corn Syrup
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch through an enzymatic process. High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a …
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Sweet Chocolate Sugar
Sweet chocolate sugar refers to the sugar component found in sweet chocolate products. It is primarily sucrose, a type of …
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Corn And Barley Malt Extract
Corn and barley malt extract is a sweetener made from the grains corn and barley. The grains are malted (sprouted) …
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Cake: Cane Sugar
Cane sugar is a type of sugar, chemically known as sucrose, that is extracted from sugarcane plants. It is produced …
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Malic Acid And Sucralose
Malic acid is a natural organic acid found in fruits like apples and pears. It can be produced synthetically through …
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Dectrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar, also known as glucose, that is a basic source of energy for the body. It …
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Grape Jelly: Sugar
Sugar, typically sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugar cane or …
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Tapioca Syrup Blend
Tapioca syrup blend is a sweetener made from the starch of the cassava root, also known as the tapioca plant. …
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Molasses Honey
Molasses is a thick, dark syrup produced during the refining of sugar cane or sugar beets into granulated sugar. It …
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Sgr
Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol, a type of carbohydrate that the body can digest slowly. It is found naturally in …
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Dextrose And Sunflower Lecithin
Dextrose is a simple sugar, also known as glucose. It is commonly derived from corn. Sunflower lecithin is a fat …
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All Natural Cane Sugar
All natural cane sugar is a type of sugar produced from sugar cane. It undergoes minimal processing compared to highly …
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High Fructose Rice Syrup
High fructose rice syrup is a liquid sweetener made from rice starch. The starch is broken down into sugars, and …
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Honey Molasses
Honey molasses is a blend of honey and molasses, a syrup produced during the refining of sugar. The ratio of …
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Organic Raw Blue Agave
Organic raw blue agave is a sweetener derived from the blue agave plant, native to Mexico. It is produced by …
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Marshmallow Sauce
Marshmallow sauce is a sweet, creamy topping made primarily from sugar, corn syrup, and water. It is often flavored with …
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Organic Blue Amber Agave
Organic Blue Amber Agave is a natural sweetener derived from the agave plant, native to Mexico. It is produced by …
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Neotame And BHT
Neotame is an artificial sweetener made from aspartame. It is about 7,000 to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar. BHT (butylated …
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Organic Coconut Palm Nectar
Organic coconut palm nectar is a sweetener made from the sap of coconut palm flowers. The sap is heated to …
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Corn Syrup And Each Of The Following: Concentrated Juices
This ingredient combines corn syrup, a liquid sweetener made from corn starch, with concentrated fruit or vegetable juices. Concentrated juices …
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Chips - Sugar
Sugar is a common term for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates. The most common type, sucrose, is extracted from plants like sugarcane …
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Each: Invert Sugar
Invert sugar is a liquid sweetener made from sucrose (table sugar). It is produced by breaking down sucrose into two …
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Coated With Honey
Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance made by honey bees from the nectar of flowers. Bees collect nectar and …
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Marshmallow Ingredients: Sugar
Sugar, chemically known as sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugarcane …
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Green: Sugar
Sugar, specifically sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is commercially produced by extracting and refining …
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Blue: Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is typically extracted from sugar …
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Fudge Swirl - High Fructose Corn Syrup
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into glucose, and …
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Maltose Dextrin
Maltose dextrin is a type of carbohydrate made from starch, usually corn or potato starch. It is produced by breaking …
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Natural 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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Frosting: Natural Cane Sugar
Natural cane sugar is a sweetener made from sugarcane. The sugarcane stalks are harvested, crushed to extract the juice, and …
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Salt And Brown Sugar
Salt and brown sugar is a common ingredient blend combining sodium chloride, a mineral, with brown sugar, a form of …
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Stevia Glycosides
Stevia glycosides are sweet compounds extracted from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, native to South America. The extraction …
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White Refined Sugar
White refined sugar is a common sweetener made from sugarcane or sugar beets. It is processed to remove molasses and …
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Water Brown Sugar
Brown sugar is granulated white sugar with molasses added back in. The molasses gives it a brown color and a …
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Sweetened With 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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Marshmallow Sauce Base
Marshmallow sauce base is a sweet, creamy topping often made from corn syrup, sugar, water, and flavorings. It is designed …
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Blend Of Sugar & Honey
A blend of sugar and honey combines two common sweeteners. Sugar, often sucrose, is typically extracted from sugarcane or sugar …
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A Nonnutritive Sweetener
A nonnutritive sweetener is a substance that provides sweetness with very few or no calories. It can be synthesized or …
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Syrup And Soluble Fiber
Syrup and soluble fiber is a blend of sweeteners and dietary fibers. The syrup component is typically a liquid sweetener …
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Blue Agave
Blue agave is a plant native to Mexico, similar to a cactus. The sap, called aguamiel, is extracted from the …
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Sugar Beet
Sugar beet is a root vegetable, similar to a large parsnip, cultivated for its high concentration of sucrose. It is …
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Fructo-oligosaccharides
Fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) are short chains of sugar molecules. They are naturally found in foods like bananas, onions, and garlic. FOS …
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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.