Sugars

• What are the types of sugar?

  • Granulated
  • Caster
  • Soft brown
  • Muscovado
  • Demerara
• What are the types of syrup?

  • golden
  • black treacle
  • maple
• What are the pros and cons of artificial sweetners?

  PROS:

  • replaces sugar in food
  • pass through body undigested

  CONS:

  • aftertaste
  • lack bulk, doesn't melt the same as sugar, cakes can be very dense, dry and lumpy.
• What are monosaccharides?

  • single molecules of sugar
  • absorbed directly into the bloodstream during digestion

  e.g glucose, fructose, galactose
• What are disaccharides?

  • Two linked sugar molecules
  • broken down by digestion

  examples:

  Sucrose: fructose + glucose

  Lactose: glucose + galactose

  Maltose: glucose + glucose
• What are intrinsic and extrinsic sugars?

  Intrinsic: naturally occurring

  Extrinsic: added to food