Talk:Sweetener
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Hey, would it be good form to add the ® symbol to some of these?
The corn syrup article links to this one, but according to the definition here, a sweetener has fewer calories than sugar. Is sugar/corn syrup a type of sweetener or not? Is it appropriate to say that corn syrup is used to sweeten foods, as the other article does? Is the definition given here appropriate? Also, I think this definition is vague in some other ways - fewer calories per what unit? Per gram? Per perceived sweetness? And is the comparison based on sucrose, or fructose, or glucose, or some other sugar? I think that a better definition might cover anything which makes food taste sweeter, including sugar and things like pear juice, and that a list of sugar-based sweeteners should be added to the article. But I am no expert!
What about people on low-carbohydrate diets who use sugar substitutes not to reduce calorie intake, but instead carb intake?
Could this article simply be renamed "sugar substitute?" --Mcnett 23:53, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I am making the change -- "sweetener" means "something that adds sweetness", and I don't think anyone could argue that sugar does not add sweetness. In the Oxford dictionary (but not in Webster's), "sweetener" is defined as being "something that sweetens, especially something other than sugar". So it seems this is a Britishism. Even if it is, the current article does not make note of this, so I am moving the "sweetener" article to "sugar substitute" and writing a short stub for "sweetener" which makes mention of the Britishism.
- Tooki 18:59, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)