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Sugar, is not simply sugar. There are many kinds of sugar and here is what they mean.
GLUCOSE A monosaccharide (simple sugar) found in the blood, either derived from digested food or made by the body form other carbohydrates and from protein.
DEXTROSE Another name for glucose.
FRUCTOSE The sugar found in fruit, juices, and honey.
LACTOSE The sugar found in milk.
MALTOSE A sugar formed by the breakdown of starch.
SOCROSE Table sugar.
GRANULATED SUGAR Sucrose.
CONFECTIONER'S SUGAR Powdery sucrose.
BROWN SUGAR Sucrose crystals covered with a film of syruyp.
CORN SUGAR Sugar made form cornstarch.
CORN SWEETENER A liquid sugar made form the breakdown of cornstach.
CORN SYRUP A syrup made by the partial breakdown of cornstach.
HONEY A syrup made up mostly of fructos.
INVER SUGAR A combination of sugars found in fruits.
MAPLE SYRUP A syrup made form the sap of the sugar maple tree.
MOLASSES Syrup that is separataed from raw sugar during processing.
MANNITOL A sugar alcohol that is broken down in the body the same way as other sugars but absorbed more slowly.
SORBITOL A sugar alcohol produced by hydrogenation of glucose and invert sugar and absorbedmore slowly than ordinary dietary sugar.
SORGHUM Syrup made form sorghum grain.
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