[Problem] To provide a sweetener for obtaining a food and beverage that more closely approximates a food and beverage in which sugar is used than a food and beverage in which sugar alcohol or a sweetener having a high degree of sweetness is used. In other words, to provide a sweetener having satisfactory sweetness similar to sugar, and to provide a food and beverage with low or no sugar, and having a quality of taste approximate to when sugar is used, there being no adverse effect on the flavor of the food and beverage. [Solution] Provided are: a sweetener having a sugar-like sweetness, comprising sugar alcohol and/or a sweetener having a high degree of sweetness, and a yeast extract containing a peptide； and a food and beverage containing the sweetener.
