Sweetener
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A sweetener is a food additive which adds the basic taste of sweetness to a food; artificial sweeteners are sugar substitutes.
[edit] Nutritive sweeteners
- Sugar alcohols
- Honey
- Fruits
- Syrups, including
- Maple syrup
- Sugar beet syrup
- Corn syrup
- Cane syrup
- Golden syrup
- Barley malt syrup
- Molasses (treacle)
- Brown rice syrup
- Agave syrup
[edit] Non-nutritive sweeteners
- Acesulfame potassium, also known as Sunett
- Alitame, also known as Aclame
- Aspartame, also known as Equal or Nutrasweet
- Cyclamate
- Glycyrrhizin
- Lo han guo
- Neotame
- Perillartine
- Saccharin, also known as Sweet 'n' Low
- Stevioside
- Sucralose, also known as Splenda
- Sugar of lead, also known as Lead(II) acetate (obsolete due to excessive toxicity)
- Inulin
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