Sugar by definition is a sweet crystalline or powdered substance, white when pure, consisting of sucrose obtained mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets and used in many foods, drinks, and medicines to improve their taste.
In culinary terms, sugar as a type of food delivers one of the primary taste sensations, that of sweetness.
Sugar or white sugar is made by extracting the juice from sugar cane, filtering, concentrating and purifying it until sugar crystallizes.
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.
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