Sugar by definition is a sweet crystalline or powdered substance, white when pure, consisting of sucrose obtained mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets. Sugar is widely available and is found in food products such as ketchup, hot chocolate, soda, cakes, pies and candy bars.
In culinary terms, sugar as a type of food delivers one of the primary taste sensations, that of sweetness.
Refined sugar is the white sugar crystals that is used at home. In the very beginning sugar was not known in its solid form but only as a sweet syrup obtained from sugarcane. Its name originated from the Sanskrit word ‘Sharkara’ which denotes ‘ material in a granular form’.
Sugar or white sugar is made by extracting the juice from sugar cane, filtering, concentrating and purifying it until sugar crystallizes.
For thousands of years sugar has remained an important commodity, or good that can be bought and sold.
The "simple" sugars, or monosaccharides (such as glucose), store energy which biological cells use and consume. In a list of ingredients, any word that ends with "ose" probably denotes a sugar. For example glucose, fructose and sucrose.
When other sweeteners may be cheaper than sugar, it is still used widely and is preferred sweetener in premium ice cream products. Sugar help to produce a clean, sweet taste in ice cream.
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