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