All Sugar Alcohols and Simple Sugars

Gathers the sweet compounds that are sold as bulk ingredients, whether the simple sugars found in plants and milk or the sugar alcohols used in reduced-sugar foods. It includes glucose, fructose, lactose, trehalose, tagatose, allulose, xylitol, erythritol, sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol, lactitol and isomalt. Within the Sweeteners subcategory it sits beside the groups Cane, Beet and Plant Sugars, Syrups and Molasses, Honey and Bee Products, High-Intensity and Sweet-Tasting Compounds, Cacao and Chocolate Bases, and each entry is placed in the one group whose description fits it best.