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Sugar

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How Cane Sugar Is Made

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Refined Sugar: Where did it come from? | Stuff of Genius

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Shocking Amounts of Sugar People Eat Around The World

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How Much Sugar Is In Your Food?

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You May Never Eat SUGAR Again after Watching This

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. The various types of sugar are derived from different sources. Simple sugars are called monosaccharides and include glucose, fructose, and galactose. "Table sugar" or "granulated sugar" refers to sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose. In the body, sucrose is hydrolysed into fructose and glucose.