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Food Ingredients

Quiz: How much do you know about natural sweeteners?

Put your knowledge of natural sweeteners to the test!

by Andy Brunning, special to C&EN
January 12, 2021

 

 

Before you take our quiz on natural sweeteners, make sure you check out our Periodic Graphic for some helpful hints.

Which of the following is the major sugar found in maple syrup?
Which of the following sugars is most commonly found in fruits?
Which of the following enzymes do honeybees use to break down sucrose into glucose and fructose?
Which of the following sugar alcohols is commonly used in sugar-free chewing gum?
The following compounds are all found in stevia plant extract. Which has the highest sweetness relative to sucrose?
Stevia is derived from Stevia rebaudiana, a plant native to South America. In which country was it first discovered?
How many times as sweet as sucrose is mogrocide V, the sweetest of the compounds found in monk fruit?

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