Sweetening agents or sweeteners are mainly used for masking the undesirable or bitter taste of any drug formulation and increase the patient acceptance towards pharmaceutical dosages form.
In pediatric dosages form it is widely used because children prefer more the sweetening drugs.
In Homeopathic medication , small sugar pills are used during the drug delivery. Recently it is widely used in the Ayurvedic medicine also.
Sugar is the most widely used sweetening agent, due to its viscosity nature it also used as preservative for liquid preparation.