What Is Sugar?
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. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double sugars, are molecules made of two bonded monosaccharides; common examples are sucrose (glucose + fructose), lactose (glucose + galactose), and maltose (two molecules of glucose). White sugar is a refined form of sucrose. In the body, compound sugars are hydrolysed into simple sugars.
What Are The Types Of Sugar?
- Glucose.
- Fructose (a.k.a. fruit sugar)
- Sucrose (a.k.a. table sugar)
- Lactose (a.k.a. dairy sugar)
What Are Sugar Made Of?
The common ‘sugar’ (sucrose) used is made up from glucose and fructose and is extracted from sugar cane or sugar beet. Sugar cane is grown in tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world, including South Africa, Brazil, India, Mauritius and the West Indies.
What Is Sugar Used For?
Although the main reason for the use of sugar is its sweet taste, sugar has many other functions in food technology. The most important among these are that added sugar in foods acts as a sweetener, preservative, texture modifier, fermentation substrate, flavouring and colouring agent, bulking agent.
Why Is Sugar Good For Life?
Our bodies convert sugar into fuel quickly unlike fats that are stored to be used later. Our body is designed to use glucose as the preferred source of energy and is the only source of energy for the brain. Glucose is found mainly in carbohydrate foods including sugar, bread, rice, cereal and potatoes.
How Sugar Is Formed In The Body?
The liver supplies sugar or glucose by turning glycogen into glucose in a process called glycogenolysis. The liver also can manufacture necessary sugar or glucose by harvesting amino acids, waste products and fat byproducts. This process is called gluconeogenesis.
What Are The Importance Of Sugar?
Sugars are an important ingredient in both the food we make at home, and the manufactured foods we find on our supermarket shelves. Sugars help many foods to be more palatable, improving their flavour and mouthfeel. They also help foods to last longer, add viscosity and are used as a bulking agent.
How Long Does Sugar Stay In Your Body?
By tracking your blood sugar levels within 60 to 90 minutes of a meal, you can see how your body responds to certain foods and make informed decisions about what foods are the best at stabilizing your blood sugar. After about two hours, your blood sugar should drop back down to its pre-meal level.
Sugar Prices In Ghana:
GH₵ 28.00
Sunny Gold White Sugar Sticks 10g
GH₵ 60.00
Meneton Special Brown Sugar 2kg
GH₵ 45.00
2000 Finest Sugar 2kg
GH₵ 160.00
Pure Cane Brown Sugar
GH₵ 25.00
St Louis Sugar Cubes (500g)
GH₵ 620.00
50kg Incumsa45 Brazilian White Sugar
GH₵ 400.00