Side-by-side benchmark
Allulose vs. every other sweetener
Allulose is set here as the fixed benchmark. Every other sweetener and sugar is lined up against it, attribute by attribute. The marks below are factual differences in how each one behaves and is labeled — not health endorsements. For sourced detail on any entry, open its page.
Benchmark Allulose — the reference profile
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Marked cells share the same value as Allulose on that attribute. Tap any row for the full head-to-head.
| Sweetener | Family | Cal / g | Glycemic index | Is it a sugar? | Browns / bakes | Adds bulk | Sweetness vs sugar | "Added sugar" on US label | WHO 2023 advisory | California AB 1264 (K-12) |
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How to read this. Allulose is the only entry that behaves like sugar in the kitchen — it browns and adds bulk — while carrying near-zero calories and a zero glycemic index, sitting outside the US "added sugar" line, and falling outside the 2023 WHO advisory on non-sugar sweeteners. That combination is what this view is built to surface. California's Real Food, Healthy Kids Act (AB 1264, 2025) names many of these sweeteners — including stevia and monk fruit — among substances that classify a food as ultraprocessed for K-12 school nutrition; allulose is not among them, and sugars are addressed under separate added-sugar provisions. More on AB 1264 → The data is descriptive, drawn from the per-sweetener pages; it is not dietary advice. Dataset: CC BY 4.0 · JSON · CSV.
Selected sources
The same sources as the per-sweetener pages this benchmark draws from, gathered here for the columns in the table above.
- US Food & Drug Administration — additive and GRAS status of the sweeteners listed in this table.
- US Food & Drug Administration — high-intensity sweeteners — acceptable daily intakes for the high-intensity entries.
- US Food & Drug Administration — Nutrition Facts label — the Added Sugars line behind the “Added Sugar on US label” column.
- US Food & Drug Administration — Added Sugars on the Nutrition Facts Label — which sweeteners count toward that line.
- US FDA Nutrition Facts label guidance — sugar alcohols — calorie values used for the polyol rows.
- US Food & Drug Administration — labeling of allulose — allulose’s calorie declaration and its exclusion from the Added Sugars line.
- US FDA, 21 CFR 101.9 — the nutrition-labeling rules the label columns follow.
- World Health Organization — Use of non-sugar sweeteners: WHO guideline (2023) — the “WHO 2023 advisory” column.
- World Health Organization — guidance on free-sugar intake — the free-sugar context for the sugar rows.
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030 — guidance on non-nutritive sweeteners.
- California AB 1264 (2025), the Real Food, Healthy Kids Act — the “California AB 1264 (K-12)” column.
- California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment — Proposition 65 — the lead-concern flag.
- European Food Safety Authority — EU assessments of the same substances.
- US Department of Agriculture — FoodData Central — reference composition and calorie values.
- Meta-analysis of allulose and postprandial glucose, PLoS One (2023) — the glycemic-index entry for allulose.