Sugar

The white stuff we know as sugar is sucrose, a disaccharide, made up of two sugars (glucose and fructose) bound together. Sugar found in the food supply is harvested from sugar beets and sugar cane.

Sugars are an important source of energy with glucose being the most important for the body. The brain requires around 130 grams of sugar (glucose) per day to keep functioning. The different sugars are broken down and used in different ways but the body doesn’t distinguish between sugars used in manufacturing or in the kitchen, and those sugars found naturally in fruits and vegetables.