What Are Sweetening Agents

Sweetening Agents. Substances that sweeten food, beverages, medications, etc., such as sugar, saccharine or other low-calorie synthetic products. ( From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

What are sweetening agents in pharmacy?

Sweetening agents are excipients often added to pharmaceutical dosage forms to mask bitter taste of the partially dissolved drug and to improve palatability in general. Traditionally, oral formulations were sweetened using concentrated sucrose solution (syrup) or honey (contains fructose).

What are natural sweetening agents?

Natural Sweeteners. Natural sweeteners, in comparison to nonnutritive sweeteners, contain calories and nutrients, are metabolized, and change as they pass through the body. They include agave nectar, brown rice syrup, date sugar, honey, maple syrup, molasses and blackstrap molasses, sorghum syrup and stevia.