Flashcards: Sugar substitutes

Lactose is a disaccharide sugar composed of galactose and glucose that is found in milk.

Anethole (anise camphor) is an organic compound that is widely used as a flavoring substance.

Malt is germinated cereal grains that have been dried in a process known as "malting".

Fructose, or fruit sugar, is a simple ketonic monosaccharide found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose.

Aspartame (APM; /ˈæspərteɪm/ or /əˈspɑːrteɪm/) is an artificial, non-saccharide sweetener used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages.

Honey /ˈhʌni/ is a sweet food made by bees foraging nectar from flowers.

Acesulfame potassium (ace-SUHL-faym), also known as acesulfame K (K is the symbol for potassium) or Ace K, is a calorie-free sugar substitute (artificial sweetener), and marketed under the trade names Sunett and Sweet One.

Maltose (/ˈmɔːltoʊs/ or /ˈmɔːltoʊz/), also known as maltobiose or malt sugar, is a disaccharide formed from two units of glucose joined with an α(1→4) bond, formed from a condensation reaction.

Galactose (galacto- + -ose, "milk sugar"), sometimes abbreviated Gal, is a monosaccharide sugar that is less sweet than glucose and fructose.

Curculin is a sweet protein that was discovered and isolated in 1990 from the fruit of Curculigo latifolia (Hypoxidaceae), a plant from Malaysia.

Maltodextrin is a polysaccharide that is used as a food additive.

Saccharin is an artificial sweetener with effectively no food energy which is about 300–400 times as sweet as sucrose or table sugar, but has a bitter or metallic aftertaste, especially at high concentrations.

Xylitol /ˈzaɪlᵻtɒl/ is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener.

Mannitol, also known as mannite or manna sugar, is a white, crystalline solid that looks and tastes sweet like sucrose.

Sodium cyclamate (sweetener code 952) is an artificial sweetener.

Sucralose is an artificial sweetener and sugar substitute.

Isomalt is a sugar substitute, a type of sugar alcohol, used primarily for its sugar-like physical properties.

Inverted or invert sugar syrup is a mixture of glucose and fructose; it is obtained by splitting the disaccharide sucrose into these two components.

Tagatose is a functional sweetener.

Lactitol is a sugar alcohol used as a replacement bulk sweetener for low calorie foods with approximately 40% of the sweetness of sugar.

Stevioside is a glycoside derived from the stevia plant, which can be used as a sweetener.

Neotame is an artificial sweetener made by NutraSweet that is between 7,000 and 13,000 times sweeter than sucrose (table sugar).

Miraculin is a natural sugar substitute, a glycoprotein extracted from the fruit of Synsepalum dulcificum.

Glycyrrhizin (or glycyrrhizic acid or glycyrrhizinic acid) is the chief sweet-tasting constituent of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice) root.

Sucrose is a common, naturally occurring carbohydrate found in many plants and plant parts.

Birnenhonig (German: lit. pear honey) is a syrup made from pears in central Switzerland.

Monellin, a sweet protein, was discovered in 1969 in the fruit of the West African shrub known as serendipity berry (Dioscoreophyllum cumminsii); it was first reported as a carbohydrate.

Trehalose, also known as mycose or tremalose, is a natural alpha-linked disaccharide formed by an α,α-1,1-glucoside bond between two α-glucose units.

Maltitol is a sugar alcohol (a polyol) used as a sugar substitute.

Rebiana is the trade name for high-purity rebaudioside A, a steviol glycoside that is 200 times as sweet as sugar.

Phyla dulcis is a species of perennial herb that is native to southern Mexico, the Caribbean (Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Thaumatin is a low-calorie sweetener and flavour modifier.

Golden syrup or light treacle is a thick, amber-coloured form of inverted sugar syrup made in the process of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid.

Mizuame (水飴) is a sweetener from Japan which is translated literally to "water candy" (also known as millet jelly).

Volemitol is a naturally occurring seven-carbon sugar alcohol.

5-Nitro-2-propoxyaniline, also known as P-4000 and Ultrasüss, is one of the strongest sweet-tasting substances known, about 4,000 times the intensity of sucrose (hence its alternate name, P-4000).

Monatin, commonly known as arruva, is a naturally occurring, high intensity sweetener isolated from the plant Sclerochiton ilicifolius, found in the Transvaal region of South Africa.

Advantame is a non-caloric sweetener from Japan's Ajinomoto Co.

Sucrononic acid is a Guanidino derivative artificial sweetener.

Selligueain A is an A type proanthocyanidin trimer of the propelargonidin type.

Siamenoside is a cucurbitane.

Splenda /ˈsplɛndə/ is the commercial name and registered trademark of a sucralose-based artificial sweetener owned by the British company Tate & Lyle and American company Heartland Food Products Group.

Aspartame-acesulfame salt is an artificial sweetener marketed under the name Twinsweet.

Brazzein is a sweet-tasting protein extracted from the West African fruit of the climbing plant Oubli (Pentadiplandra brazzeana Baillon).

Perillartine, also known as perillartin and perilla sugar, is a sweetener that is about 2000 times as sweet as sucrose.

Osladine is a naturally occurring, high-intensity sweetener isolated from the rhizome of Polypodium vulgare.

Hernandulcin is an intensely sweet chemical compound gained from the chiefly Mexican and South American plant Lippia dulcis.

PureCircle Ltd is an investment holding company that is a major provider of natural ingredients (based on high-purity stevia) to the global food and beverage industry.

Sorbitol, also known as glucitol, is a sugar alcohol with a sweet taste which the human body metabolizes slowly.

Maple sugar is a traditional sweetener in Canada, and the northeastern United States, prepared from the sap of the maple tree.

The NutraSweet Company is an American nutrient company that produces and markets NutraSweet, their trademarked brand name for the artificial sweeteners aspartame and neotame.

Suosan is calorie-free artificial sweetener derived from β-alanine, discovered in 1948 by Petersen et Muller.

Perillaldehyde, or perilla aldehyde, is a natural organic compound found most abundantly in the annual herb perilla, but also in a wide variety of other plants and essential oils.

L-Glucose is an organic compound with formula C6H12O6 or H–(C=O)–(CHOH)5–H, specifically one of the aldohexose monosaccharides.

Mabinlins are sweet-tasting proteins extracted from the seed of Mabinlang (Capparis masaikai Levl.), a Chinese plant growing in Yunnan province.

Naringin dihydrochalcone, sometimes abbreviated to naringin DC, is an artificial sweetener derived from naringin, a bitter compound found in citrus.

Neomogroside is a cucurbitane glycoside isolated from the fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii.

Lugduname (from lat. Lugdunum for Lyons) is one of the most potent sweetening agents known.

Erythritol ((2R,3S)-butane-1,2,3,4-tetraol) is a sugar alcohol (or polyol) that has been approved for use as a food additive in the United States and throughout much of the world.

Lead(II) acetate (Pb(CH3COO)2), also known as lead acetate, lead diacetate, plumbous acetate, sugar of lead, lead sugar, salt of Saturn, and Goulard's powder, is a white crystalline chemical compound with a sweetish taste.

Dulcin is an artificial sweetener about 250 times sweeter than sugar discovered in 1884 by Joseph Berlinerbau.

Alitame is an aspartic acid-containing dipeptide sweetener.

Neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, sometimes abbreviated to neohesperidin DC or simply NHDC, is an artificial sweetener derived from citrus.

Enoxolone (INN, BAN; also known as glycyrrhetinic acid or glycyrrhetic acid) is a pentacyclic triterpenoid derivative of the beta-amyrin type obtained from the hydrolysis of glycyrrhizic acid, which was obtained from the herb liquorice.

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