Refined sugar

Sugar is nothing more than sucrose, i. e. a compound from the group of natural disaccharides. Glucose is found in many plants. The largest amount of sugar is contained in fruits, berries and fruits. Our usual sugar is made, as a rule, from sugar cane or beet. The product that we are used to buying in a grocery store is called edible sugar in the food industry. Despite some negative effects of excessive sugar consumption, the product occupies an important place in the human diet.

It is thanks to glucose that the human body is saturated with the energy necessary for the normal life of a person. Sugar is classified as carbohydrates. It is noteworthy that in the body, food sugar quickly breaks down into two independent chemical compounds - glucose and fructose. Researchers consider India to be the birthplace of sugar. Sugar got its original name thanks to the ancient Indian language. The word शर्करः, and in transcription sarkaraḥ translates as grain of sand or gravel. The thing is that in India they ate brown sugar, which really looks like sand.

Currently, various types of sugar are produced in the food industry, which, as a rule, differ from each other in the starting natural material that was used to make the product. For example, cane, beet, maple, palm and sorghum sugars are distinguished. In addition, the shape of the sugar packing differs. The food industry produces granulated sugar, candy sugar, as well as refined sugar. Brazil is considered the world leader in sugar production, India is in second place. Refined sugar is nothing more than sugar that has gone through an additional stage of processing.

Its distinctive snow-white taste and the distinctive consistency of refined sugar or lump sugar was obtained due to the fact that such a product contains 9

9. 9% glucose. Interestingly, crumbly refined sugar is initially obtained, which is then packaged as a piece of refined sugar, granulated sugar or powdered sugar. Chunky refined sugar is thought to be perfect for tea drinking. we think that many at least once in their lives drank black tea with refined sugar. It is also worth noting that refined sugar is produced from both sugar beets and cane.

However, it is the refined sugar made of beets that has a snow-white color and a more crisp consistency. Cane refined sugar is distinguished by its dark sand color. Refined sugar, like any other type of sugar, can harm human health and well-being only in the case of regular consumption of the product in unlimited quantities. Do not forget that sugar is an important element of human nutrition. However, even a healthy product with uncontrolled use will rather harm the human body, weeks will benefit and improve well-being and general health.