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.
Powdered Molasses
Powdered molasses is a dry form of molasses, which is a thick, dark syrup produced during the refining of sugar …
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Syrup/evaporated
Syrups are concentrated, sweet liquids made by reducing the water content of natural juices or saps, typically through evaporation. They …
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Maltodextrin And Stevia Extract
Maltodextrin is a complex carbohydrate made from corn, rice, or potato starch. It is produced by breaking down the starch …
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Organic Date Sugar
Organic date sugar is made from dried, ground dates. It is a whole-food sweetener, meaning it contains the entire fruit, …
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Fair Trade Certified Tm Sugar
Sugar is a sweet carbohydrate obtained from plants like sugarcane or sugar beets. It is processed to remove impurities and …
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Wheat And Sugar Beet Origin
This refers to a sweetener or a blend of sweeteners whose components are sourced from wheat and sugar beet. From …
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Sauce Packets: 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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Nonpareil Seeds: Sugar
Nonpareils are tiny, colorful, spherical sugar sprinkles used to decorate confectionery. They are primarily made from sugar, often derived from …
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Bee Honey
Bee honey is a sweet, viscous food substance made by honey bees from the nectar of flowers. Bees collect nectar …
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Acesulfamek
Acesulfame potassium, often called Ace-K, is a high-intensity artificial sweetener. It is synthesized chemically and is about 200 times sweeter …
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Sugar And Brown Sugar
Sugar is a common term for sucrose, a sweet-tasting carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from …
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Tapioca Syrup And Salt
Tapioca syrup is a sweetener made from the starch of the cassava root. The starch is broken down into simpler …
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Dusting Sugar
Dusting sugar is a very finely ground form of granulated sugar, often mixed with a small amount of an anti-caking …
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Sulcrose
Sucralose is an artificial sweetener made from sugar. It is about 600 times sweeter than sugar and is not metabolized …
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Erythritol And Monk Fruit Blend
This is a blend of two sweeteners. Erythritol is a sugar alcohol produced by fermenting glucose, often from corn. Monk …
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High Fructose Corn Syrup: Distilled Vinegar
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into glucose, …
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Decoration: Sugar
Sugar is a common carbohydrate, primarily sucrose, that provides a sweet taste. It is typically extracted and refined from plants …
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Coconut Aminos Coconut Syrup
Coconut aminos coconut syrup is a liquid sweetener made from the sap of coconut blossoms. The sap is tapped, then …
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Liquid Sucralose Concentrate
Sucralose is an artificial sweetener made from sugar through a multi-step chemical process. It is about 600 times sweeter than …
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Holly Sprinkle Mix: Dextrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar that comes from corn. It is chemically identical to glucose, a sugar found naturally in …
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Dots: 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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Caret2
Caret2 is a food additive that functions as a sweetener. It is a synthetic compound created through chemical processes.
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Monkfruit Extract Powder
Monk fruit extract powder is a sweetener derived from the monk fruit, a small, round fruit native to Southeast Asia. …
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Non-gmo Isomalto-oligosaccharides
Isomalto-oligosaccharides (IMO) are a type of carbohydrate that can be found naturally in small amounts in foods like honey and …
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Nerds: Dextrose
Dextrose is a type of sugar that comes from corn. It is chemically identical to glucose, a simple sugar found …
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Dehydrated Marshmallows Sugar
Dehydrated marshmallows are small, chewy confections made primarily from sugar, corn syrup, and gelatin. They are dried to reduce moisture …
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Organic 100% Blue Agave Tequilana Weber
Organic 100% Blue Agave Tequilana Weber is a sweetener derived from the blue agave plant, native to Mexico. The plant's …
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Organic Flavor Blend: Organic Cane Sugar
Organic cane sugar is a sweetener made from sugarcane plants. The stalks are crushed to extract juice, which is then …
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Purified Organic Stevia Extract
Purified Organic Stevia Extract is a high-intensity sweetener derived from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant. The leaves are …
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Whiskey Glaze: Sugar
Sugar, commonly known as sucrose, is a sweet-tasting carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugarcane …
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Sgar
Sgar is a common term for sweet-tasting carbohydrates, most often referring to sucrose. It is primarily extracted from plants like …
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Standardized With Organic Sugar
Standardized with organic sugar" refers to an ingredient, often a flavor extract or concentrate, that has been diluted or mixed …
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Erythritol Sugar
Erythritol is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in some fruits and fermented foods. It is produced commercially through the …
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Acesulfame-k & Neotame
Acesulfame potassium (Ace-K) and neotame are both artificial sweeteners. Ace-K is about 200 times sweeter than sugar and is often …
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Brown Granulated Sugar
Brown granulated sugar is a type of sugar that contains molasses, which gives it a distinct brown color and a …
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Maple Sugar Granules
Maple sugar granules are a natural sweetener made from the sap of maple trees. The sap is collected, boiled down …
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Saberry
Saberry is a natural sweetener derived from the fruit of the *Sabdariffa* plant, commonly known as hibiscus. The fruit extract …
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Stevia And Calcium Carbonate
Stevia is a sweetener derived from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant. The sweet compounds, called steviol glycosides, are …
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Purified From Stevia Rebaudiana Leaves
This is a high-intensity sweetener extracted from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, a shrub native to South America. …
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Sorbitol And Peppermint Oil
Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in some fruits. It is commercially produced from glucose, often derived from …
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Stevia Leaf Extract Rebaudioside A
Stevia leaf extract Rebaudioside A is a high-intensity sweetener derived from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, native to …
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Oner
Oner is a type of sugar, specifically a monosaccharide. It is a simple carbohydrate that occurs naturally in fruits and …
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Organic Date Powder
Organic date powder is made from dried, ground organic dates. Dates are the fruit of the date palm tree, native …
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Marshmallows: Tapioca Syrup
Tapioca syrup is a liquid sweetener made from the starch of the cassava root. The starch is broken down into …
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Dextrose /or Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a carbohydrate found naturally in plants like sugar cane and sugar beets. Dextrose is …
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Sugarcane Reb M
Reb M is a high-intensity sweetener found naturally in the stevia plant. It is one of several steviol glycosides that …
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Icing Also Contains: Maltodextrin
Maltodextrin is a polysaccharide made from starch, typically from corn, rice, potato, or wheat. It is produced by breaking down …
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Organic Steviol Glycosides
Organic steviol glycosides are a group of sweet compounds extracted from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant. The extraction …
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Organic Confectioner's Sugar
Organic confectioner's sugar is a very finely ground form of granulated sugar, often mixed with a small amount of cornstarch …
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Sucralose And Carrageenan
Sucralose is an artificial sweetener made from sugar through a multi-step chemical process. Carrageenan is a food additive derived from …
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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.