sugarcoated vs sweetened

sugarcoated

adj
  • Coated with sugar. 

  • Made superficially more attractive, possibly to cover up faults. 

sweetened

adj
  • containing sweetener 

  • made to taste sweet 

  • made more appealing or more attractive with incentives 

How often have the words sugarcoated and sweetened occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )