Food sweetening

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A sweetener is a food additive which adds the basic taste of sweetness to a food; artificial sweeteners and natural sweeteners that aren't purely sugar are sugar substitutes.

Nutritive sweeteners

• Sugar alcohols
• Honey
• Fruits
• Syrups, including
  • Maple syrup
  • Birch syrup
  • Pine syrup
  • Hickory syrup
  • Poplar syrup
  • Palm syrup
  • Sugar beet syrup
  • Sorghum syrup
  • Corn syrup
  • Cane syrup
  • Golden syrup
  • Barley malt syrup
  • Molasses (treacle)
  • Brown rice syrup
  • Agave nectar
  • Yacon syrup

Non-nutritive sweeteners

• Adenylic Acid or Adenosine Monophosphate (AMP)
• Acesulfame potassium, also known as Sunett
• Alitame, also known as Aclame
• Aspartame, also known as Equal or Nutrasweet
• Anethole
• Cyclamate
• Glycyrrhizin
• Lo han guo
• Miraculin
• Neotame
• Perillartine
• Saccharin, also known as Sweet 'n' Low
• Selligueain A
• Steviosides, responsible for the sweet taste of the stevia plant (Stevia rebaudiana bertoni).
• Sucralose, also known as SucraPlus and Splenda
• Sugar of lead, also known as Lead(II) acetate (obsolete due to excessive toxicity)
• Thaumatin a protein sweetener
• Inulin

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