Lactose is a disaccharide sugar composed of galactose and glucose that is found in milk.
Anethole
Anethole (anise camphor) is an organic compound that is widely used as a flavoring substance.
Malt
Malt is germinated cereal grains that have been dried in a process known as "malting".
Fructose
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
Aspartame (APM; /ˈæspərteɪm/ or /əˈspɑːrteɪm/) is an artificial, non-saccharide sweetener used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages.
Honey
Honey /ˈhʌni/ is a sweet food made by bees foraging nectar from flowers.
Acesulfame potassium
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
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
Galactose (galacto- + -ose, "milk sugar"), sometimes abbreviated Gal, is a monosaccharide sugar that is less sweet than glucose and fructose.
Curculin
Curculin is a sweet protein that was discovered and isolated in 1990 from the fruit of Curculigo latifolia (Hypoxidaceae), a plant from Malaysia.
Maltodextrin
Maltodextrin is a polysaccharide that is used as a food additive.
Saccharin
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
Xylitol /ˈzaɪlᵻtɒl/ is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener.
Mannitol
Mannitol, also known as mannite or manna sugar, is a white, crystalline solid that looks and tastes sweet like sucrose.
Sodium cyclamate
Sodium cyclamate (sweetener code 952) is an artificial sweetener.
Sucralose
Sucralose is an artificial sweetener and sugar substitute.
Isomalt
Isomalt is a sugar substitute, a type of sugar alcohol, used primarily for its sugar-like physical properties.
Inverted sugar syrup
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
Tagatose is a functional sweetener.
Lactitol
Lactitol is a sugar alcohol used as a replacement bulk sweetener for low calorie foods with approximately 40% of the sweetness of sugar.
Stevioside
Stevioside is a glycoside derived from the stevia plant, which can be used as a sweetener.
Neotame
Neotame is an artificial sweetener made by NutraSweet that is between 7,000 and 13,000 times sweeter than sucrose (table sugar).
Miraculin
Miraculin is a natural sugar substitute, a glycoprotein extracted from the fruit of Synsepalum dulcificum.
Glycyrrhizin
Glycyrrhizin (or glycyrrhizic acid or glycyrrhizinic acid) is the chief sweet-tasting constituent of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice) root.
Sucrose
Sucrose is a common, naturally occurring carbohydrate found in many plants and plant parts.
Birnenhonig
Birnenhonig (German: lit. pear honey) is a syrup made from pears in central Switzerland.
Monellin
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
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
Maltitol is a sugar alcohol (a polyol) used as a sugar substitute.
Rebiana
Rebiana is the trade name for high-purity rebaudioside A, a steviol glycoside that is 200 times as sweet as sugar.
Phyla dulcis
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
Thaumatin is a low-calorie sweetener and flavour modifier.
Golden syrup
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
Mizuame (水飴) is a sweetener from Japan which is translated literally to "water candy" (also known as millet jelly).
Volemitol
Volemitol is a naturally occurring seven-carbon sugar alcohol.
5-Nitro-2-propoxyaniline
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
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
Advantame is a non-caloric sweetener from Japan's Ajinomoto Co.
Sucrononic acid
Sucrononic acid is a Guanidino derivative artificial sweetener.
Selligueain A
Selligueain A is an A type proanthocyanidin trimer of the propelargonidin type.
Siamenoside I
Siamenoside is a cucurbitane.
Splenda
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
Aspartame-acesulfame salt is an artificial sweetener marketed under the name Twinsweet.
Brazzein
Brazzein is a sweet-tasting protein extracted from the West African fruit of the climbing plant Oubli (Pentadiplandra brazzeana Baillon).
Perillartine
Perillartine, also known as perillartin and perilla sugar, is a sweetener that is about 2000 times as sweet as sucrose.
Osladin
Osladine is a naturally occurring, high-intensity sweetener isolated from the rhizome of Polypodium vulgare.
Hernandulcin
Hernandulcin is an intensely sweet chemical compound gained from the chiefly Mexican and South American plant Lippia dulcis.
Purecircle
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
Sorbitol, also known as glucitol, is a sugar alcohol with a sweet taste which the human body metabolizes slowly.
Maple sugar
Maple sugar is a traditional sweetener in Canada, and the northeastern United States, prepared from the sap of the maple tree.
NutraSweet
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
Suosan is calorie-free artificial sweetener derived from β-alanine, discovered in 1948 by Petersen et Muller.
Perillaldehyde
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
L-Glucose is an organic compound with formula C6H12O6 or H–(C=O)–(CHOH)5–H, specifically one of the aldohexose monosaccharides.
Mabinlin
Mabinlins are sweet-tasting proteins extracted from the seed of Mabinlang (Capparis masaikai Levl.), a Chinese plant growing in Yunnan province.
Naringin dihydrochalcone
Naringin dihydrochalcone, sometimes abbreviated to naringin DC, is an artificial sweetener derived from naringin, a bitter compound found in citrus.
Neomogroside
Neomogroside is a cucurbitane glycoside isolated from the fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii.
Lugduname
Lugduname (from lat. Lugdunum for Lyons) is one of the most potent sweetening agents known.
Erythritol
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
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
Dulcin is an artificial sweetener about 250 times sweeter than sugar discovered in 1884 by Joseph Berlinerbau.
Alitame
Alitame is an aspartic acid-containing dipeptide sweetener.
Neohesperidin dihydrochalcone
Neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, sometimes abbreviated to neohesperidin DC or simply NHDC, is an artificial sweetener derived from citrus.
Enoxolone
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.