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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
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sugar 1. Commonly table sugar or
sucrose, which is extracted from the
sugar beet or
sugar cane, concentrated, and refined.
Molasses is the residue left after the first stage of crystallization and is bitter and black. The residue from the second stage is
treacle, less bitter and viscous than molasses. The first crude crystals are Muscovado or Barbados sugar, brown and sticky. The next stage is light brown, Demerara sugar. Refined white sugar is essentially 100% pure sucrose; technically described as semi‐white, white, and extra‐white (EU definitions). Yields 16 kJ (3.9) kcal/g. Soft sugars are fine‐grained and moister, white or brown (excluding large‐grained Demerara sugar).
2. Chemically a group of compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen (carbohydrates). The simplest sugars are monosaccharides. They may contain three (triose), four (tetrose), five (pentose), six (hexose), or seven (heptose) carbon atoms, with hydrogen and oxygen in the ratio C
nH
2nO
n. The nutritionally important monosaccharides are hexoses: glucose (grape sugar), fructose (fruit sugar), and galactose. Two pentoses are also important: ribose and deoxyribose. See also
disaccharides;
oligosaccharides.
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SUGAR FACTORIES IN JAVA THREATENED WITH BEING CLOSED DOWN; 8 NEW SUGAR FACTORIES BEING PREPARED OUTSIDE OF JAVA
Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter; 1/27/1997; 700+ words
; The sugar industry, which is considered strategic...showing a decline in productivity. Of the 57 sugar factories existing in Java, at least 27...milling capacity of less than 2,000 tons of sugar canes per day and a sugar production capacity...
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Sugar Imports Up Steadily
Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter; 1/24/1994; 700+ words
; To meet domestic sugar demand, Indonesia has had to continue...1989, the total volume of Indonesia's sugar imports reached 325,447 tons. A year...290 tons. The volume of Indonesia's sugar imports has continued to increase with...
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Sugar daddies: how sugar interests rip off America and harm the national interest.(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: National Review; 7/18/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...for corporate-welfare queens, the sugar industry would occupy a place of special honor. For decades, powerful sugar growers have gotten politicians to enrich...protectionist scheme that inflates domestic sugar prices to the detriment of American consumers...
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Sugar and allied. (sugar and allied companies on Karachi Stock Exchange - 1994)
Magazine article from: Economic Review; 12/1/1995; 700+ words
; Higher Sugar Production Prospect of Export Bright There...on the list of Karachi Stock Exchange in Sugar & Allied sector in 1994. Of these...highest Breakup Value was recorded by United Sugar at Rs. 70.33, followed by Bawany at...
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Sugar Zappers!(how to cut down on sugar)
Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...limit sucrose or white table sugar and other added sugars. Foods that contain a lot of added sugar, such as soda pop that's sweetened...foods. Finally, cut down on sugar at the table. Use less of all sugars, including white and brown sugars...
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SUGAR WORKERS' STRIKE HALTS PROCESSING ACTIVITIES, THREATENING DOMESTIC SUGAR SUPPLIES.
Magazine article from: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico; 12/6/2000; 700+ words
; A strike by Mexico's largest sugar workers union, the Sindicato de la Industria...Alcoholera (SIAAC), has halted almost all sugar-processing activities and could threaten domestic sugar supplies in the coming months. SIAAC members...
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Sugar Growers Applaud Action Aiding Family Farmers in Crisis.
PR Newswire; 5/12/2000; 700+ words
; ...May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- America's sugar farmers today applauded action by the Administration aimed at aiding family sugar farmers in crisis. Specifically, the...to purchase 150,000 short tons of sugar in an effort to avoid forfeiture of...
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How sugar coated the world.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 8/5/2003; 700+ words
; Byline: Rachel Dickinson We all know what sugar is - that granulated stuff in the bowl on the...from? I bet you didn't know that the story of sugar takes you around the world, that sugar was once considered a spice as precious as gold...
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Sugar Labs Announces Immediate Availability of Sugar on a Stick; Learning Platform Runs on Any PC or Netbook in the Classroom.
PR Newswire; 6/24/2009; 700+ words
; ...BERLIN, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- LinuxTag -- Sugar Labs(TM), nonprofit provider of the Sugar Learning Platform to over one-million children...worldwide, announces the immediate availability of Sugar on a Stick v1 Strawberry. Available free for...
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Sugar industry - problems and prospects. (Pakistan)
Magazine article from: Economic Review; 10/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; In 1947 there were 2 small sugar mills producing total of 8000 tons of sugar annually. Now in 1993 there are 55 cane sugar mills producing more than 2.25 million tons of sugar annually, 4 cane sugar mills in NWFP have also facilities of processing...
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Sugar Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
SUGAR INDUSTRY SUGAR INDUSTRY dates back to the very founding of the New World, and has been...entangled with its history. Because of its role in the slave trade, sugar played an important role not only in the economy but also in how social...
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Sugar
Book article from: Plant Sciences
...are dense complexes of sugar molecules. Starches and sugars make up the group of foodstuffs...plant flowers that contains sugars. Sugar, Calories, and Energy...that plants utilize to make sugar. Digestion of sugars (carbohydrates) is accomplished...
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SIC 2063 Beet Sugar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
SIC 2063 BEET SUGAR This entry includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing sugar from sugar beets. NAICS Code(s) 311313 (Beet Sugar Manufacturing) Sugar beets are one of the world's main sugar sources and an important source...
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Sugar, Ronald D. 1948–
Book article from: International Directory of Business Biographies
Ronald D. Sugar 1948 – President, chief executive...x25A0; A banker described Ronald D. Sugar, the CEO of Northrop Grumman Corporation...Street Journal , September 21, 2001). Sugar embodied the spirit of social mobility...
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Sugar Crops and Natural Sweeteners
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...photosynthesis. Sugars are the simplest...dextrose and grape sugar, is the most prevalent...sweetness values for the sugars mentioned are: Fructose 120 Invert sugar 95 Sucrose 100 Glucose...than two millennia, sugar beet for just two...centuries. The origin of sugars in ...
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