SWEETNESS

Sweetness

Sweetness is one of the five basic tastes and is universally regarded as a pleasurable experience. Foods rich in simple carbohydrates such as sugar are those most commonly associated with sweetness, although there are other natural and artificial compounds that are sweet at much lower concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Examples of foods that may be used as non-sugar sweet substitutes include saccharin, aspartame, xylitol and acesulfame potassium. Other compounds may alter perception of sweetness itself.

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sweetness

Noun

  1. The condition of being sweet or sugary.
  2. A pleasant disposition; kindness.
    ''Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.


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