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.
Vegetable Juice And Stevia Extract
Vegetable juice is the liquid extracted from vegetables. Stevia extract is a high-intensity sweetener derived from the leaves of the …
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Dried Molasses Blend
Dried molasses blend is a sweetener made from molasses, a byproduct of refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. The …
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Cane Refinery Syrup And Molasses
Cane refinery syrup and molasses are byproducts of sugar refining from sugarcane. They are concentrated liquids containing sugars, minerals, and …
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White Cake Sugar
White cake sugar is a finely granulated white sugar, typically sucrose, derived from either sugarcane or sugar beets. The refining …
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Honey Bun
A honey bun is a type of sweet pastry, often ring-shaped or rectangular. It is typically made from a yeast-leavened …
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Honey And Salt
Honey is a sweet, viscous liquid produced by honey bees from the nectar of flowers. The bees collect nectar and …
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Corn Syrup Food Starch-modified
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into simpler sugars (glucose and …
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Stevia Rebaudianna Leaf Extract
Stevia Rebaudianna Leaf Extract, often called stevia extract, comes from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, native to South …
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Be
Be is a type of sugar found naturally in honey and some fruits. It is a monosaccharide, meaning it is …
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Dried Refiners Syrup
Dried refiners syrup is a sweetener made from the concentrated juice of sugar cane or sugar beets. It is produced …
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Vanilla Flavor And Invert Sugar
Vanilla flavor is a flavoring agent made from vanilla beans or synthesized in a lab. Invert sugar is a liquid …
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Tapicoa Syrup
Tapioca syrup is a sweetener made from the starch of the cassava root. The starch is broken down into simpler …
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Chocolate Core: 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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High Fructose Corn Syrup Vinegar
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch. The corn starch is broken down into …
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Water Maltodextrin
Maltodextrin is a type of carbohydrate made from corn, rice, potato starch, or wheat. It is produced by breaking down …
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Raw Organic Agave
Agave is a sweetener made from the sap of the agave plant, native to Mexico and Central America. The sap …
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Syrup Base
A syrup base is a liquid sweetener that often contains water, sugar (like corn syrup or high-fructose corn syrup), and …
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Dextrose Natural Flavor
Dextrose is a simple sugar, a type of carbohydrate, that is chemically identical to glucose. It is commonly derived from …
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Glucose Syrup From Maize
Glucose syrup from maize, also known as corn syrup, is a liquid sweetener made from the starch of corn kernels. …
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Frosting: 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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Corn Syrup Cocoa Powder
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from the starch of corn. The starch is broken down into simpler sugars, …
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Cooked Sugar
Cooked sugar is a sweetener made by heating granulated sugar (sucrose) until it melts and caramelizes. This process changes the …
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Refinery Syrup Honey
Refinery syrup honey is a sweetener made from refined sugar, often from sugarcane or sugar beets. It is produced by …
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Organic Fair Trade Certified Agave Nectar
Agave nectar is a natural sweetener derived from the agave plant, native to Mexico and the southwestern United States. It …
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Dried Blueberries Sweetened With Apple Juice Concentrate
Dried blueberries are blueberries that have had most of their water removed through drying. This process concentrates their natural sugars …
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100% Pure U
Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance made by honey bees from the nectar of flowers. Bees collect nectar and …
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Moose Tracks Fudge: 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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Gummies: Glucose Syrup
Glucose syrup is a liquid sweetener made from starch, typically from corn. The starch is broken down into simpler sugars, …
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Invert Sugar Cane Molasses
Invert sugar cane molasses is a liquid sweetener made from sugar cane. It is produced by breaking down sucrose into …
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Hazelnut Spread: Sugar
Sugar is a sweet substance derived from sugarcane or sugar beets. It is processed into granulated crystals for use in …
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Corn Syrup Solids And Each Of The Following
Corn syrup solids are a sweetener made from corn starch. The starch is broken down into smaller sugar molecules, then …
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Brown Sugar1
Brown sugar is granulated white sugar with molasses added. The amount of molasses determines the color and flavor, ranging from …
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Fructose And Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein
Fructose is a simple sugar found naturally in fruits and honey. Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) is made by breaking down …
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Sucralose And Stevia Extract
Sucralose is an artificial sweetener made from sugar through a multi-step chemical process. Stevia extract, also known as steviol glycosides, …
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Steviol Glycoside And Rebaudioside A
Steviol glycosides are sweet compounds extracted from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant. Rebaudioside A is one of the …
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Salted Fudge Swirl: Powdered Sugar
Powdered sugar, also known as confectioners' sugar or icing sugar, is granulated sugar that has been finely ground into a …
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Maltodextrin Dextrose
Maltodextrin and dextrose are both carbohydrates derived from starch, typically from corn, wheat, or potatoes. They are produced by breaking …
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Peppermint Candies: Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a carbohydrate that is naturally found in plants like sugarcane and sugar beets. It …
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Sea Salt Caramel Swirl: Sugar
Sugar is a carbohydrate that comes from sugarcane and sugar beets. It is refined into a white crystalline substance used …
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Cotton Candy - Sugar
Sugar is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in plants like sugarcane and sugar beets. It is refined into a white, …
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Butterscotch - Sugar
Sugar is a sweet carbohydrate, most commonly sucrose, derived from sugarcane or sugar beets. It is refined through processes that …
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Fruit Punch - Sugar
Sugar is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in plants like sugarcane and sugar beets. It is extracted and refined into …
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Pgrp
Pgrp is a food additive. It is a synthetic ingredient that is not found in nature. It is manufactured through …
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Chocolate Caramel Truffles
Chocolate caramel truffles are a confection made with a chocolate shell filled with a soft, creamy caramel center. The caramel …
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Spray Coating: Sugar
Sugar is a carbohydrate that occurs naturally in plants like sugarcane and sugar beets. It is most commonly extracted from …
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Sweetened With Nutritive And Non-nutritive Sweeteners
This ingredient indicates a product is sweetened with both nutritive (sugar-based) and non-nutritive (artificial or natural, low-calorie) sweeteners. Nutritive sweeteners …
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Liquid 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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Dextrose And The Following: Salt
Dextrose is a simple sugar, also known as glucose, that is commonly derived from corn. It is produced by breaking …
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Caramel Corn: Non-gmo 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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Coated With: Fructose
Fructose is a type of sugar found naturally in fruits, honey, and some vegetables. It is often produced commercially 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.