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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sweetener
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
artificial sweeteners (=used to make food or drink taste sweeter)
▪ Diet drinks contain artificial sweeteners like saccharin.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
artificial
▪ Add the artificial sweetener to taste if required.
▪ For a number of years, artificial sweeteners were mainly used by diabetics, who bought the products in drugstores.
▪ Taste and add a little sugar or artificial sweetener, if desired.
▪ Why are we content to settle for second-rate flavors, fake chocolates, no-fat cheeses, and chemical-tasting artificial sweeteners?
▪ Sweeten to taste with the artificial sweetener.
▪ As with fat-free products and artificial sweeteners, people will probably compensate for olestra by eating more calories elsewhere in their diets.
▪ Sprinkle a little artificial sweetener on the fruit if desired.
▪ One in five chose decaffeinated tea and coffee while 14% used artificial sweeteners.
■ VERB
offer
▪ In order to tempt investors, governments have therefore taken to offering sweeteners with their privatization offers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most "diet" foods are full of artificial sweeteners.
▪ The new airport is an unpopular development but the government has promised £4 million in grants to the local community as a sweetener.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Added to the sweeteners they'd have to pay back, that would mean a deficit of nearly £130m.
▪ Artificial additives such as colourings, sweeteners and flavour enhancers aren't permitted in baby foods.
▪ But Devenish shareholders get a dividend sweetener.
▪ Canderel is made with NutraSweet so, unlike some saccharin sweeteners, it doesn't have a bitter aftertaste.
▪ No oil, dairy products or sweeteners are added so the principle of slow rise will prevail.
▪ That, Eaton thought, was the sweetener that would surely make Rickey sell.
▪ Why are we content to settle for second-rate flavors, fake chocolates, no-fat cheeses, and chemical-tasting artificial sweeteners?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sweetener

Sweetener \Sweet"en*er\, n. One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sweetener

1640s, agent noun from sweeten (v.).

Wiktionary
sweetener

n. 1 a food additive that sweetens, especially an artificial substitute for sugar 2 (context informal English) something added as an inducement or incentive; a kickback

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WordNet
sweetener

  1. n. something added to foods to make them taste sweeter [syn: sweetening]

  2. anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come-on, hook, lure]

Wikipedia
Sweetener (disambiguation)

A sweetener is a substance, most commonly a sugar substitute (artificial sweetener), added to food to give it the basic taste of sweetness.

Other common sweeteners include:

  • Sugar
  • Sugar alcohol
  • Fructose, or fruit sugar
  • High fructose corn syrup
  • Honey
  • Sucrose, commonly named table sugar
  • Syrup
  • Unrefined sweetener

Usage examples of "sweetener".

Then he thought of Melilot and her beauty laid fast under a charm, and drawing a full breath he laid his lips containing the ring, the Sweetener, to the lips of the Worm.

Sometimes flavored with almond or vanilla, amasake is a natural rice-based sweetener with a mild flavor.

Apparently, somebody had alerted the chef to the dietary restrictions of the Coalition agents, because the breakfast options included a kashalike grain, cooked into porridge and served with some sort of legume milk and a sweetener reminiscent of molasses in its sulfury richness.

Modisett and the big black box, about how the Phantom Sweetener had deconvolved her, and about Bill Tidy.

Clodagh delayed answering until she had served her guests coffee and freshly baked hot cinnamon rolls, and placed a pitcher of milk and a huge bowl of sweetener before them.

The servitor had already added the proper amounts of lightener and sweetener.

Also, natsach left no unpleasant aftertaste and did not cause disease, the way artificial sweeteners did.

Both the Low Kingdoms and Outremer are going to end up losing some territory, so both sides are throwing in lucrative trade deals as sweeteners to help the medicine go down.