ABSTRACT
Although sweeteners can be grouped in a number of different ways, the grouping “nutritive” and “non-nutritive” acknowledges a difference in the amount of energy provided by sweeteners. (1) Nutritive sweeteners provide a sweet taste and a source of energy; non-nutritive sweeteners are sweet without providing energy. Nutritive sweeteners include sugar sweeteners (e.g., refined sugars, high fructose corn syrup, crystalline fructose, glucose, dextrose, corn sweeteners, honey, lactose, maltose, various syrups, invert sugars, concentrated fruit juice) and reduced-energy polyols or sugar alcohols (e.g., sorbitol, mannitol, xylitol, isomalt, and hydrogenated starch hydrolysates).
