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.
Dark Chocolate Sugar
Dark chocolate sugar is a sweetening ingredient that combines sugar with components of dark chocolate, such as cocoa solids and …
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Granulated Cane Sugar
Granulated cane sugar is a common sweetener made from sugar cane. It is produced by extracting the juice from sugar …
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Fancy Molasses
Fancy molasses is a type of molasses, which is a byproduct of refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. It …
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Stevia Leaf Reb M
Stevia Leaf Reb M is a high-intensity sweetener extracted from the stevia plant (Stevia rebaudiana). It is one of the …
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Coating: Sugar
Sugar, chemically known as sucrose, is a sweet-tasting carbohydrate. It is primarily extracted from sugarcane or sugar beets through a …
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Rice Syrup Solids
Rice syrup solids are a sweetener made from cooked rice that has been broken down into simpler sugars. The process …
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Organic Invert Cane Syrup
Organic invert cane syrup is a liquid sweetener made from organic sugar cane. It is produced by breaking down sucrose …
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Organic Malt Extract
Organic malt extract is a sweetener made from organic barley. The barley grains are sprouted, dried, and then steeped in …
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Organic Reb A
Organic Reb A is a high-purity stevia leaf extract. It is a naturally occurring sweetener derived from the leaves of …
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High Fructose
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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Caramel Syrup
Caramel syrup is a liquid sweetener made by heating sugar, often with water and sometimes other ingredients like butter or …
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Filling: Invert Sugar
Invert sugar is a liquid sweetener made from a mixture of two simple sugars: glucose and fructose. It is created …
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Pineapple Syrup
Pineapple syrup is a liquid sweetener made from pineapple fruit. It is typically produced by concentrating pineapple juice or by …
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Coated With Dextrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar, also known as glucose. It is typically derived from corn or other plant starches through …
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Dextrose Monohydrate
Dextrose monohydrate is a form of glucose, a simple sugar. It is derived from corn or other starches and is …
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Frosting Sugar
Frosting sugar, also known as confectioners' sugar or powdered sugar, is a finely ground white sugar. It is made by …
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Glucose Solids
Glucose solids are a dried form of glucose syrup, which is made by breaking down starches, most commonly from corn. …
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D-glucose
D-glucose, also known as dextrose, is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) and a primary source of energy for living organisms. It …
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Mini Beads: 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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Powdered Cane Sugar
Powdered cane sugar, also known as confectioners' sugar, is a finely ground form of granulated sugar that comes from sugar …
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Corn Sweetener
Corn sweetener is a general term for various sweetening ingredients made from corn starch. These include corn syrup, high-fructose corn …
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Glucose Powder
Glucose powder is a sweetener made from starch, typically corn starch. The starch is broken down into simpler sugars, then …
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Liquid Sucrose
Liquid sucrose is a solution made by dissolving sucrose (common table sugar) in water. It is a clear, sweet syrup …
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Made Of: 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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Oat Syrup Solids
Oat syrup solids are a sweetener made from oats. The oats are milled, then enzymes are used to break down …
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Molasses Solids
Molasses solids are a concentrated form of molasses, which is a byproduct of refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. …
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Seasoning - Sugar
Sugar is a common term for sweet-tasting carbohydrates. The most common type, sucrose, is extracted from sugar cane or sugar …
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Cane Invert Syrup
Cane invert syrup is a liquid sweetener made from sugar (sucrose). It is produced by breaking down sucrose into its …
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Pure Honey
Pure honey is a sweet, viscous food substance made by honey bees from the nectar of flowers. Bees collect nectar, …
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Lactitol
Lactitol is a sugar alcohol, also called a polyol. It is made from lactose, a sugar found in milk. The …
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Clover Honey
Clover honey is a type of honey produced by bees that have foraged on the nectar of clover plants. It …
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Organic Concentrated Grape Must
Organic concentrated grape must is a sweetener made from grapes. It is produced by concentrating the juice of crushed grapes, …
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Sweetener Blend
A sweetener blend is a mixture of two or more different sweeteners, often including both nutritive (calorie-containing) and non-nutritive (zero-calorie) …
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Organic Tapioca Fiber
Organic tapioca fiber is a soluble dietary fiber derived from organic tapioca starch. The starch undergoes enzymatic modification and purification …
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Topping: Sugar
Sugar, chemically known as sucrose, is a sweet carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugarcane …
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Tapioca Dextrose
Tapioca dextrose is a type of sugar derived from tapioca, which comes from the cassava plant. The starch from the …
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Evaporated Sugar Cane
Evaporated sugar cane juice is a sweetener made from freshly pressed sugar cane juice that has been heated to evaporate …
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Liquid Sucralose
Liquid sucralose is an artificial sweetener made from sugar. It is produced through a process that selectively replaces three hydrogen-oxygen …
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Dry Honey
Dry honey is honey that has had most of its water removed, usually through dehydration or spray-drying. This process results …
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Dried Cane Sugar
Dried cane sugar is a type of granulated sugar made from the juice of sugar cane. The juice is evaporated …
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Isomalto Oligosaccharide
Isomalto oligosaccharide (IMO) is a type of carbohydrate made of short chains of glucose. It is often produced from starch, …
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Cultured Corn Syrup Solids
Cultured corn syrup solids are made from corn syrup that has been fermented by beneficial bacteria or yeast. This fermentation …
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Refiners' Syrup
Refiners' syrup is a thick, sweet liquid that is a byproduct of the sugar refining process. It is the uncrystallized …
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Organic Barley Malt Extract
Organic barley malt extract is a sweetener made from sprouted organic barley grains. The grains are malted (sprouted and dried) …
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Sugar Cane
Sugar cane is a tall, perennial grass that grows in tropical and subtropical regions. The stalks of the sugar cane …
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Acesulfame Potassium And Sucralose
Acesulfame potassium (Ace-K) is a calorie-free artificial sweetener. It is about 200 times sweeter than sugar and is often blended …
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Extract Of Malted Barley And Corn
Extract of malted barley and corn is a liquid or solid sweetener made from grains. It is produced by malting …
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Monk Fruit Concentrate
Monk fruit concentrate is a sweetener made from the monk fruit, a small, round fruit native to Southeast Asia. The …
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Non-gmo Sugar
Sugar is a common carbohydrate, typically sucrose, which is a disaccharide made of glucose and fructose. It is primarily extracted …
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Organic Light Brown Sugar
Organic light brown sugar is a type of sucrose, a disaccharide made of glucose and fructose. It is produced 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.