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ssss1 Types of sweetener.

Nutritive sweeteners are sweet tasting and have nutritional value. The natural sweetener includes mono- and disaccharides like sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, honey, molasses, and sugar alcohols. Properties of natural sweetener are follows:

 • They provide calories and energy to diet.

 • They are natural sweetener because they are extracted from natural products without any chemical modifications during the production or extraction process.

 • The major ingredient of natural sweeteners is either mono- or disaccharides.

Demerits of natural sweetener are follows:

 • Tooth decay

 • Diabetes/hypoglycemia

 • Hyperactivity or misbehavior in children

 • Heart disease

 • Obesity

Reduced-calorie and low-calorie sweeteners are Polyols or “sugar alcohols” or sugar replacers are naturally occurring in many fruits and beverages, but for commercial uses, they are made from other carbohydrates, such as starch, sucrose, and glucose. They are classified as follows: