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Sweetness is the pleasure or enjoyment that comes from food that tastes sweet. Today, sucrose becomes the sweetness standard by which all other sweeteners are measured. An ideal sweetener should taste like sucrose, is colorless, odorless, readily soluble, stable and economical. Some sweeteners, like sugar, contain calories, some are low-calorie or calorie-free.
