{"id":1112,"date":"2025-10-05T21:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/introduction-to-sweeteners\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:10:27","slug":"introduction-to-sweeteners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/introduction-to-sweeteners\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Sweeteners"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row us_custom_b6a72ce1 height_small\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"text_image wp-image-511 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/shirinkonnde.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/shirinkonnde.jpg 700w, https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/shirinkonnde-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\"><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span class=\"\">In general, sweeteners are classified into four main groups:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span class=\"\">1 \u2013 Natural sweeteners<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>that have a long history of use, including barley malt, brown rice syrup, date sugar, fructose, fruit syrup concentrate, honey, and maple sugar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span class=\"\">2 \u2013 Refined sweeteners<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">, including: white sugar, raw sugar, brown sugar, confectioner&#8217;s (powdered) sugar, corn syrup, and dextrose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span class=\"\">3 \u2013 Sweeteners and bulking agents<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">, most of which belong to the sugar alcohol family, including (isomalt, isomaltulose, trehalulose, sorbitol, xylitol, etc.).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span class=\"\">4 \u2013 Intense sweeteners<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\">, also called non-caloric and non-nutritive sweeteners, which are further divided into industrial and natural categories. The most important industrial intense sweeteners include acesulfame potassium, sucralose, aspartame, saccharin, alitame, and cyclamate.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In general, sweeteners are classified into four main groups: 1 \u2013 Natural sweeteners\u00a0that have a long history of use, including barley malt, brown rice syrup, date sugar, fructose, fruit syrup concentrate, honey, and maple sugar. 2 \u2013 Refined sweeteners, including: white sugar, raw sugar, brown sugar, confectioner&#8217;s (powdered) sugar, corn syrup, and dextrose. 3 \u2013...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}