
What is sugar? About the ingredient sugar. Including 16,541 recipes with sugar, nutrition data, photos, where it's found, and video.
In food, sugar almost exclusively refers to sucrose, which primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet.
Other sugars are used in industrial food preparation, but are usually known by more specific names—glucose, fructose or fruit sugar, high fructose corn syrup, etc.
Excessive consumption of sugar has been associated with increased incidences of type 2 diabetes, obesitytooth decay.
Sugar is usually found in the baking supplies section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
Sugar is a member of the Sweets USDA nutritional food group.
measure | grams |
1 serving packet | 2 |
1 tsp | 4 |
1 cup | 200 |
1 serving 1 cube | 2 |
In Chinese: | 糖 | |
British (UK) term: | sugar | |
en français: | de sucre | |
en español: | azúcar |
There are 19292 recipes that contain this ingredient.
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Usda nutrition data | almost 6 years ago |
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