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.
Acesulfame
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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Unsulfured Molasses
Unsulfured molasses is a thick, dark syrup made from sugarcane or sugar beets. It is produced by boiling the juice …
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Allulose Syrup
Allulose is a "rare sugar" that is chemically similar to fructose and glucose. It is found naturally in small amounts …
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Rubbed With: 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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Corn Syrup And Sugar
Corn syrup and sugar is a combination of two common sweeteners. Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn …
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D-ribose
D-ribose is a type of sugar that occurs naturally in all living cells. It is a component of RNA (ribonucleic …
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Unrefined Cane Sugar
Unrefined cane sugar is sugar derived from sugarcane that has not been highly processed. It retains some of the natural …
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Dehydrated Honey
Dehydrated honey is honey that has had most of its water removed through a drying process. This results in a …
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Sugar Cane Molasses
Sugar cane molasses is a thick, dark syrup produced during the refining of sugar from sugar cane. It is a …
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Concentrated White Grape Juice
Concentrated white grape juice is made by removing water from white grape juice. This process intensifies the natural sugars and …
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Raw Organic White Honey
Raw organic white honey is a natural sweetener produced by honeybees from the nectar of flowers. The 'white' color often …
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White Ready-to-use Icing: Sugar
Sugar is a common carbohydrate, chemically known as sucrose. It is primarily extracted from sugarcane or sugar beets. The process …
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Organic Blue Agave Syrup
Organic blue agave syrup is a sweetener made from the blue agave plant, native to Mexico. The plant's sap is …
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Fructooligosaccharide
Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) are a type of carbohydrate that occurs naturally in foods like bananas, onions, and garlic. Industrially, they are …
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Organic Raw Sugar
Organic raw sugar is a type of sugar that comes from sugar cane. It is made by pressing juice from …
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Evaporated Cane Juice Crystals
Evaporated cane juice crystals are a form of sugar made from the juice of sugarcane. The juice is heated and …
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Made Of: Corn Syrup
Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from the starch of corn. The corn starch is broken down into simpler …
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Organic Sucrose
Organic sucrose is a simple carbohydrate, commonly known as table sugar. It is derived from organic sources such as sugarcane …
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Erythritol And Monk Fruit Extract
Erythritol is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in some fruits and fermented foods. It is produced commercially through the …
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Golden Syrup
Golden syrup is a thick, amber-colored form of invert sugar. It is made by the process of sugar refining, where …
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D-xylose
D-xylose is a simple sugar, also known as wood sugar. It is found naturally in fruits, vegetables, and hardwoods. It …
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Sugar Spices
Sugar is a carbohydrate that comes from sugarcane and sugar beets. It is refined through a process of crushing, washing, …
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Icing Ingredients: Confectioners Sugar
Confectioners' sugar is a finely ground white sugar. It is made by pulverizing granulated sugar in a mill with a …
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Sugar And Sunflower Oil
Sugar is a common carbohydrate, typically sucrose, extracted from plants like sugarcane or sugar beets. Sunflower oil is a vegetable …
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Ingredients List For Pez Candy Sugar
Sugar, often called sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in plants. It is typically made from sugarcane or sugar …
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Aspartame-acesulfame Salt
Aspartame-acesulfame salt is an artificial sweetener that combines aspartame and acesulfame potassium into a single ingredient. This salt is formed …
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Organic Vegan Cane Sugar
Organic vegan cane sugar is a type of sugar made from sugarcane. The sugarcane is grown without synthetic pesticides or …
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Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup
Partially inverted sugar syrup is a liquid sweetener made from sucrose (table sugar). It is produced by heating sucrose with …
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Sprinkles: Icing Sugar
Icing sugar, also known as confectioners' sugar or powdered sugar, is a very finely ground form of granulated sugar (sucrose). …
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Vermont Maple Syrup
Vermont maple syrup is a natural sweetener made from the sap of maple trees, primarily sugar, red, or black maple …
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Powder Sugar Coating: Dextrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar that is chemically identical to glucose. It is typically derived from corn, though it can …
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Donut Sugar
Donut sugar is a finely ground sugar, similar to powdered or confectioners' sugar, that usually contains a small amount of …
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Tagatose
Tagatose is a low-calorie sweetener that occurs naturally in small amounts in some dairy products. It is manufactured from lactose, …
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Unrefined Sugar
Unrefined sugar is a type of sugar that has not been processed to remove molasses. It is derived from sugarcane …
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Organic Unrefined Cane Sugar
Organic unrefined cane sugar is a sweetener made from sugarcane. It is minimally processed, retaining natural molasses, which gives it …
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Bai Proprietary Sweetener Blend
Bai Proprietary Sweetener Blend is a mixture of high-intensity sweeteners used by Bai Brands. The specific sweeteners in the blend …
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Jaggery
Jaggery is an unrefined, whole sugar made from sugarcane or palm sap. It is produced by boiling the sap until …
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Organic Oat Syrup Solids
Organic oat syrup solids are a sweetener made from organic oats. The oats are milled, then enzymes are used to …
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Icing Pen: Sugar
Sugar, specifically sucrose, is a carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is primarily extracted from sugar cane and sugar …
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Candy Beads: Dextrose
Dextrose is a simple sugar, chemically identical to glucose. It is typically derived from corn or wheat through a process …
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Corn Syrups
Corn syrups are liquid sweeteners made from the starch of corn. The starch is broken down into simpler sugars, primarily …
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Cookies Sugar
"Cookies Sugar" is not a specific ingredient but a general term referring to the various forms of sugar commonly found …
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Water And Sugar
Water and sugar refers to a solution where sugar (typically sucrose) is dissolved in water. This mixture is often prepared …
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Ingredients: Sugar
Sugar, also known as sucrose, is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is typically produced by extracting …
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Corn Syrup Solid
Corn syrup solids are a dried form of corn syrup, which is made by breaking down corn starch through a …
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Vanilla Sugar
Vanilla sugar is a type of sugar that has been flavored with vanilla. It is typically made by combining granulated …
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Filtered Honey
Filtered honey is honey that has been strained to remove impurities like beeswax, pollen, and other small particles. It is …
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Organic Pure Cane Sugar
Organic pure cane sugar is a sweetener derived from sugar cane plants. It is produced through a process that involves …
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Cane And Brown Sugar
Cane sugar is sucrose extracted and refined from sugar cane plants. Brown sugar is typically refined white sugar to which …
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Chocolate Flavored Chips: Sugar
Sugar is a common carbohydrate found naturally in many plants. It is typically extracted from sugarcane or sugar beets, then …
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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.