Category talk:Sugar substitutes

Why this category needs bifurcation

This category should be split into the sugar-based sweeteners (honey could go there) and the non-sugar sweeteners, such as aspartame, saccharin or xylitol. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:43, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

I agree. I've never seen this category before until it was just added to the honey article. That made m come here to find out why, because honey is a sugar, not a substitute. Actually, it's two sugars and some sugar compounds, like dextrin, with some other additives, but I think it's highly disingenuous to list all of these as sugar substitutes. When I hear "substitute" I'm thinking of a low-energy chemical that provides a sweet taste, like saccharin, phenolketoneurics, or aconitum. Corn syrup, agave, and so-on are all various forms of sugar, and thus are not substitutes. Either this category should be divided, or it should be renamed: Sucrose substitutes. (Wait, that doesn't work either, as some of these are sucrose based.) Zaereth (talk) 00:55, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Calling this category "Sugar substitute" is silly not only for chemical reasons, but for historic ones as well; refined sugar was a rare luxury as it required both semi-industrialized processing and large labor forces and global trade for it to become widely available and become the primary means of sweetening things. It may as well be called "Honey substitutes" based on historic reasons. It appears that this category was previously named "Sweeteners" and that appears to be the more correct name for this category, why was it changed to this?Falconjh (talk) 13:33, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

I can agree to that. As a list of all sweeteners it makes sense, but a category of substitutes should list things that don't contain sugar as its primary ingredient or sweetening agent, which would exclude things like corn syrup, maple syrup, honey, Kool-Aid, etc... The way it is now, it's very misleading to the reader. Zaereth (talk) 23:31, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

OK, I see that this cat was always "sugar substitutes," but recently the category "sweeteners" was deleted and its contents merged here, per this discussion. (To find the discussion, press cntrl+F and type in "sugar.") Perhaps this discussion should be transferred to that CfD page, which is likely to provoke a wider response. Zaereth (talk) 01:20, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Sugar substitutes means they don't contain sugar

Sweeteners make things sweet and some contain sugar. Bod (talk) 03:49, 4 September 2018 (UTC)