The sweetener occurs as food additive which adds the basic taste of sweetness to a food.

Inside Commonwealth English, "sweeteners" is commonly wont to refer to sugar substitutes.

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

Non-nutritive sweeteners
acesulfame potassium, also referred to as Sunett alitame, also referred to as Aclame aspartame, also referred to as Peer or even Nutrasweet cyclamate glycyrrhizin neotame saccharin, also referred to as Sweetly 'north' Low stevioside sucralose, also referred to as Splenda

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