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Revision as of 09:07, 7 December 2008
Cookbook | Recipes | Ingredients | Equipment | Techniques | Cookbook Disambiguation Pages | Ingredients | 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.
Natural Sweeteners
Sugar
Liquid sweeteners
- Agave syrup
- apple juice concentrate
- cane syrup (US) aka golden syrup (AUS/NZ) aka light treacle (UK)
- corn syrup
- 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, and also includes the common trademarked names these sweeteners are often sold as.
- 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
- glucitol
- isomalt
- saccharin (also spelled saccarine, saccarin, or saccharine) - 300x (Sweet'n Low)
- sorbitol
- stevia - 250x (also called Steviosides, or Sweetleaf. Marketed as a 'Dietary Supplement')
- sucralose (trademarked as Splenda or Splendar) - 600x
- xylitol - 1x (gram for gram); 1.5x (joule for joule)