Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Chemically Defining Sugars: Is All Sugar Simply “Sugar”?

Everyone craves a little something sweet now and then. Here's what you need to know about four common sweeteners.

Everyone craves a little something sweet now and then. Maybe more now than then. But we all understand that limiting our sugar intake is beneficial to our health.

It has only been in recent decades that we have had access to large amounts of affordable, refined sugar. During the 1980s in the United States, we found a way to make sugar even more affordable by deriving it from corn, as in high-fructose corn syrup.

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