Cookbook:Sweeteners

| Basic foodstuffs



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.

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)