Cookbook:Sweeteners

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Honey

White sugar

A magnified view of sugar crystals

Brown sugar

A sweetener is a food additive which adds the basic taste of sweetness to a food; it may come from a natural source or it may be artificially manufactured.

Natural Sweeteners

Sugar

• table sugar
• Coconut sugar
• fructose
• maltose
• maple sugar

Liquid sweeteners

• Agave syrup
• apple juice concentrate
• cane syrup (US) aka golden syrup (AUS/NZ) aka light treacle (UK)
• corn syrup
• glycerol
• Gula Jawa
• honey
• maple syrup
• molasses
  • blackstrap (US) = dark treacle (UK & AUS)
• Simple syrup
• sorghum aka sorghum molasses aka sorghum syrup
• stevia

Artificial sweeteners

The list below includes the apparent sweetness of the sweetener, when compared to granulated sugar. This is for the chemical sweetener; commercially available preparations may be less sweet due to binders and fillers like dextrose.

• acesulfame potassium (also known as Acesulfame-K or Ace-K) - 200x
• alitame
• aspartame - 160x (trademarked as Equal and Nutrasweet)
• cyclamate (calcium cyclamate or sodium cyclamate) - 30x
• Erythritol
• glucitol / sorbitol
• isomalt
• saccharin (also spelled saccarine, saccarin, or saccharine) - 300x (Sweet'n Low)
• stevia - 250x (also called Steviosides, or Sweetleaf. Marketed as a 'Dietary Supplement'. Truvia and PureVia are sweeteners partially derived from Stevia. )
• sucralose (trademarked as Splenda or Splendar) - 600x
• xylitol - 1x (gram for gram); 1.5x (joule for joule)