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Lactose:

A sugar apparently occurring in milk, also known as "milk sugar," that is the least sweet of all usual sugars and used in baby formulas and candies

Low-calorie sweetener:

Low-calorie sweeteners are non-nutritive sweeteners, also referred to as strong sweeteners. Low-calorie sweeteners can replace nutritive sweeteners in the majority foods at a caloric savings of approximately 16 calories per teaspoon. Thus, caloric decrease might be achieved when low-calorie sweetened foods and beverages are substituted for their full-calorie counterparts. Examples of low-calorie sweeteners in use in the U.S. food provide are saccharin, aspartame and acesulfame K.