Sweetener

A sweetener is a food additive which adds the basic taste of sweetness to a food.

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In Commonwealth English, "sweeteners" is usually used to refer to sugar substitutes.

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• 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

Food additive: Food additives are substances added to food to preserve it or improve its flavour and appearance....

Basic taste: Human taste sensory organs, called taste buds or gustatory calyculi, concentrated on the upper surface of the tongue. They appear to be receptive to relatively few chemical species as tastes. This contrasts markedly with the sense of olfaction, where very large numbers of different species can be d...

Sweetness: Sweetness is one of the five basic tastes, and is almost universally regarded as a pleasurable experience. In the English language, things that are pleasant in a more general sense are often called sweet, in phrases such as "sweet rest," "sweet revenge," or "home sweet home." In many other languag...