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A sweetener is a food additive which adds the basic taste of sweetness to a food. Image File history File links Merge-arrows. ... Jump to: navigation, search It has been suggested that Sweetener be merged into this article or section. ... Jump to: navigation, search It has been suggested that Colorings be merged into this article or section. ... Human taste sensory organs, called taste buds or gustatory calyculi, concentrated on the upper surface of the tongue. ... Sweetness is one of the five basic tastes, and is almost universally regarded as a pleasurable experience. ...

In Commonwealth English, "sweeteners" is usually used to refer to sugar substitutes. Jump to: navigation, search It has been suggested that Sweetener be merged into this article or section. ...

Nutritive sweeteners

• sucrose (table sugar)
• sugarcane
• sugar alcohols
• honey
• syrups, including
  • maple syrup
  • sugar beet syrup
  • corn syrup
  • cane syrup
  • golden syrup
  • barley malt syrup
  • molasses (treacle)
  • brown rice syrup

Sucrose is the common chemical name for table sugar. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Species Saccharum arundinaceum Saccharum bengalense Saccharum edule Saccharum officinarum Saccharum procerum Saccharum ravennae Saccharum robustum Saccharum sinense Saccharum spontaneum Sugarcane or Sugar cane (Saccharum) is a genus of between 6-37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation) of tall grasses (family Poaceae, tribe Andropogoneae), native to warm temperate to tropical regions... A sugar alcohol (also known as a polyol, polyhydric alcohol, or polyalcohol) is a hydrogenated form of carbohydrate, whose carbonyl group (aldehyde or ketone, reducing sugar) has been reduced to a primary or secondary hydroxyl group. ... Jump to: navigation, search Honey honey comb A capped frame of honeycomb Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by bees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. ... In cooking, Syrup (from the Arabian šarab via Latin siropus) is a thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugar, but showing little tendency to deposit crystals. ... A sugarshack where sap is boiled down to maple syrup. ... Sugar beet syrup is a thick, dark syrup made from sugar beets. ... Jump to: navigation, search Corn syrup, known as glucose syrup outside the United States, is a syrup made from corn starch and composed mainly of glucose. ... Golden syrup is a thick, amber-colored form of inverted sugar syrup, made in the process of refining sugar cane juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. ... Barley malt syrup is a sweetener produced from sprouted barley, containing approximately 65 percent maltose, 30 percent complex carbohydrate, 3% protein. ... Molasses or treacle is a thick, syrupy derivative of the juice of the sugarcane plant or the processing of sugar beet. ... Brown rice syrup is an extremely versatile and relatively healthy sweetener which is derived by culturing rice with enzymes to break down the starches, then straining off the liquid and cooking it until the desired consistency is reached. ...

Non-nutritive sweeteners

• acesulfame potassium, also known as Sunett
• alitame, also known as Aclame
• aspartame, also known as Equal or Nutrasweet
• cyclamate
• glycyrrhizin
• neotame
• saccharin, also known as Sweet 'n' Low
• stevioside
• sucralose, also known as Splenda