Erythritol is sold in powdered, crystallized, and blended with other ingredients. You can buy it as a brown sugar replacement and powdered sugar replacement.

Allulose come in liquid, powdered, crystallized, and granulated form. You can also find allulose blended with stevia and monk fruit extracts.

Sweeteners made with stevia, monk fruit or both. Stevia is the term used to refer to steviol glycosides (highly refined extracts from the leaves of the stevia plant). Monk fruit is the term used to refer to mogrosides (extracts obtained from the luo han guo fruit).

Miracle Fruit extract (or Miraculin) is a protein extracted from the African berry, Synsepalum dulcificum (or Richardella dulcifica). It does not taste sweet but is able to transform acidic flavors into sweet. It can enhance the sweetness of low pH (acid) foods and beverages to become 200 to 800 times sweeter than table sugar. Not approved as a food ingredients by the FDA, but the extract is sold in tablets or you can buy the frozen fruit.

Sugar substitutes in liquid form with artificial sweeteners are made with saccharin or sucralose.

Sucralose is made from table sugar in a process that changes its configuration into a compound around 600 times sweeter with no calories.

Saccharin is a salt around 200 to 700 times sweeter than table sugar. It provides no calories as it is not metabolized and is excreted in urine. It has noe effect on bood glucose. It may be combined with other sweeteners (such as glucose) or bulking agents (such as maltodextrin) in commercial tabletop sweeteners.

Aspartame is a high intensity sweetener that, being a protein, provides 4 Calories/g. But since it can be up to 400 times sweeter than table sugar, it is used in such small amounts that contributes few to no calories (200g or ~ 1 cup of table sugar can be replaced by 1g of aspartame). It is approved by the FDA as a nutritive sweetener.

Are sweeteners that measure spoon-for-spoon (or cup-for-cup) like regular sugar, and mantain some of sugar's role in baking but with less calories. When substituting this sweetener for sugar, consumer must substitute 'equal volume', not 'equal weight', because this sweetener is much lighter than sugar. Main ingredient is erythritol.

Are sweeteners that measure spoon-for-spoon (or cup-for-cup) like regular sugar, and mantain some of sugar's role in baking but with less calories. When substituting this sweetener for sugar, consumer must substitute 'equal volume', not 'equal weight', because this sweetener is much lighter than sugar. Do not contain sugars but have as main ingredient, a carbohydrate (maltodextrin) that is broken down into sugars