Sugars (clockwise from top-left): white refined, unrefined, brown, unprocessed cane sugar Sugar (/ ʃʊɡər /) is a class of sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double sugars, are molecules made of two bonded monosaccharides ...
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Sugar Sugar (sometimes called table sugar) is produced by extracting and purifying the sugars naturally present in sugar cane and sugar beet plants. Sugar can also be called sucrose; the scientific name for sugar. Sugar is a disaccharide, made up of two simple sugar units (monosaccharides), glucose and fructose.
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