- Sugar - Wikipedia
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose
- History of sugar - Wikipedia
The history of sugar has five main phases: The extraction of sugar cane juice from the sugarcane plant, and the subsequent domestication of the plant in tropical India and Southeast Asia sometime around 4,000 BC
- List of sugars - Wikipedia
Sugarcane and bowl of sugar This is a list of sugars and sugar products Sugar is the generalized name for sweet, short-chain, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food They are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen There are various types of sugar derived from different sources
- Sugar - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sugar [1] is the common name for several chemical substances, some of which taste sweet Mostly, it refers to sucrose , lactose , or fructose Sugar is in certain kinds of food , or it is added to make it sweeter
- Sugarcane - Wikipedia
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose, [1] which accumulates in the stalk internodes
- White sugar - Wikipedia
White sugar, also called table sugar, granulated sugar, or regular sugar, is a commonly used type of sugar, made either of beet sugar or cane sugar, which has undergone a refining process It is nearly pure sucrose
- Sucrose - Wikipedia
About 100 of the world's 180 countries produce sugar from beet or cane, a few more refine raw sugar to produce white sugar, and all countries consume sugar Consumption of sugar ranges from around 3 kilograms (6 6 pounds) per person per annum in Ethiopia to around 40 kg (88 lb) in Belgium
- Monosaccharide - Wikipedia
Monosaccharides (from Greek monos: single, sacchar: sugar), also called simple sugars, are the simplest forms of sugar and the most basic units from which all carbohydrates are built Chemically, monosaccharides are polyhydroxy aldehydes with the formula H-[CHOH]
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