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.
Strawberry Tie-dye 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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Sweetened Only With Fruit Juice Concentrates
This is a sweetener made from fruit juice that has had most of its water removed. The process concentrates the …
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Truvia Brand Sweetener
Truvia is a brand name for a sweetener made from stevia leaf extract. The stevia plant is grown for its …
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Honey Coating Sucrose
Honey coating sucrose is a blend of sucrose (table sugar) and honey. Honey is a natural sweetener produced by bees …
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Bat Candy: Dextrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar, a type of carbohydrate. It is chemically identical to glucose, the main sugar found in …
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Non-pareils: 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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Molasses Sugar
Molasses sugar is a type of sugar that still contains some molasses, giving it a light brown color and a …
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Candy Syrup
Candy syrup is a type of liquid sweetener made from corn syrup, sugar, or other starches. It is often processed …
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Syrup Solids
Syrup solids are a dried form of corn syrup. They are made by dehydrating liquid corn syrup until it becomes …
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Dextrose/sucrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar, chemically identical to glucose, often made from corn starch. Sucrose, commonly known as table sugar, …
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C: Sugar S: Glucose-fructose Syrup
Glucose-fructose syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. Enzymes are used to convert some of the glucose into …
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High Fructose Corn Syrup Citric Acid
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into glucose, …
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Isomaltooligosaccharide
Isomaltooligosaccharide (IMO) is a type of carbohydrate that is a mixture of short-chain glucose polymers. It is typically produced from …
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Robust Molasses
Robust molasses is a type of dark, thick syrup made from sugarcane or sugar beets. It is produced during the …
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Corn Syrup And Citric Acid
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. Citric acid is a weak organic acid naturally found in …
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High Fructose Corn Syrup And Water
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. Corn starch is broken down into glucose, …
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Sweetener: E966
Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in many fruits and vegetables. It is commercially produced from xylose, a …
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Sugar Topping: Sugar
Sugar is a common name for sucrose, a sweet-tasting, crystalline carbohydrate. It is primarily obtained from plants like sugarcane or …
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Sugar With Tapioca Starch
Sugar with tapioca starch is a blend of refined sugar and tapioca starch. Sugar, typically from sugarcane or sugar beets, …
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Natural And Artificial Flavoring: Acesulfame Potassium
Acesulfame potassium, also known as Ace-K, is an artificial sweetener. It is synthesized from acetoacetic acid and is about 200 …
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Dextrose is a simple sugar, a type of carbohydrate, that is chemically identical to glucose. It is derived from corn …
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Soluble Corn Product
Soluble corn product is a sweetener derived from corn. It is made by breaking down corn starch into simpler sugars, …
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Golden Sugar Sugar
Golden Sugar is a type of granulated sugar that has a light brown color and a subtle molasses flavor. It …
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Evaporated Organic Cane Sugar
Evaporated organic cane sugar is a sweetener made from the juice of sugar cane grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. …
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Monkeruit Extract
Monk fruit extract is a sweetener derived from the monk fruit, a small, round fruit native to Southeast Asia. The …
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Barley And Malt Extract
Barley and malt extract is a sweetener made from barley grains. The barley is first malted, a process where the …
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Palatinose
Palatinose is a type of sugar, also known as isomaltulose. It is made from sucrose (table sugar) through an enzymatic …
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Pure Brown Sugar
Pure brown sugar is granulated white sugar with molasses added back in. The molasses gives it a distinct flavor, color, …
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Dextrose Modified Food Starch
Dextrose is a simple sugar that is chemically identical to glucose. It is typically made from corn starch through a …
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Red Sanding Sugar: Sugar
Red sanding sugar is a type of decorative sugar that has been colored red. It is made from granulated sugar, …
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Seafood Seasoning Corn Syrup Solids
Corn syrup solids are a dry powder made from corn syrup, a liquid sweetener derived from corn starch. The liquid …
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Corn Syrup And Caramel Color
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. It is produced by breaking down the starch into simpler …
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White Grain Sorghum Syrup
White grain sorghum syrup is a sweetener made from the juice of the grain sorghum plant. The juice is cooked …
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Candy Eyes: Dextrose
Dextrose is a type of sugar that is chemically identical to glucose. It is typically derived from corn, though it …
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Cornsyrup Solids
Cornsyrup solids are a dry sweetener made from cornstarch. The starch is broken down into smaller sugar molecules, then dried …
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Fruit Juice And Grain Dextrins
Fruit juice concentrates are made by removing water from fruit juice. Grain dextrins are produced from starch, typically from corn …
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Glaze Mix: 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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Topping Ingredients: 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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Organic Cane
Organic cane sugar is a sweetener made from sugarcane. The sugarcane is grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. After harvesting, …
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Milk: Corn Syrup
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into simple sugars, primarily glucose, …
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Sugar Blends
Sugar blends are mixtures of different types of sugars or sweeteners. They are typically created by combining various sugars like …
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White Granulated Sugar
White granulated sugar is a common type of sugar refined from sugar cane or sugar beets. The process involves crushing …
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Caramel Corn Corn Syrup
Corn syrup is a sweet, thick liquid made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into simpler sugars, mainly …
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Molasses Preserved With Sulfur Dioxide
Molasses is a thick, dark syrup produced during the refining of sugar from sugarcane or sugar beets. Sulfur dioxide is …
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Frosting Packet: Confectioners Sugar
Confectioners sugar, also known as powdered sugar or icing sugar, is granulated sugar that has been ground into a very …
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Teriyaki Sauce Sugar
Sugar is a common sweetener, typically sucrose, which is extracted and refined from plants like sugarcane or sugar beets. It …
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Honey Sugar
Honey sugar is a blend of honey and crystalline sugar, typically sucrose. It combines the natural sweetness and flavor of …
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Nebraska Honey
Nebraska honey is a type of honey produced by honeybees in the state of Nebraska. It is made when bees …
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Rectified Concentrated Grape Must
Rectified concentrated grape must is a sweetener made from grape juice. It is produced by concentrating grape juice, often through …
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Barley And Corn Malt Extract
Barley and corn malt extract is a sweetener made from germinated barley and corn. The grains are malted, which means …
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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.