**2. Sweeteners**

A sugar substitute is a food additive that provides a sweet taste like that of sugar is called sweeteners and classification of sweeteners based on calorific value was shown in **Figure 1**.

**Figure 1.** *Classification of sweeteners.*

#### **2.1 Nutritive sweeteners**

Nutritive sweeteners are otherwise called as carbohydrate sweeteners (caloric). These sweeteners provide high-quality sweet taste and have an acceptable texture and shape and therefore remain as the most popular sweetener. Example for nutritive sweeteners are:
