You may wonder what to eat when your blood sugar is low. Opt for foods with sugar that your body can absorb quickly, such as ...

Sugar cane and sugar beets are the most efficient sugar plants. When you talk about sugar nutrition , you may hear a lot of different words for sugar, such as sucrose, glucose, and fructose. These ...

Sucanat contains 88% sucrose (natural sugar) while table sugar contains 99%. Cooks may get inconsistent results when they substitute it for granulated sugar, especially in baked goods.

Wen Yan is a correspondent for China Rural Revitalization magazine.

Medically reviewed by Allison Herries, RDN Invert sugar, or invert syrup, is a liquid sugar used to sweeten foods and beverages. It consists of a 50-50 mixture of fructose and glucose. It is produced ...

University of California Riverside research reveals plants use sugar and thermal signals to detect daytime heat.

For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sense temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night ...

Explain that a sugar cube (about a half a teaspoon of sugar) is made up of at least one billion trillion sucrose molecules. When sugar dissolves, these whole sucrose molecules separate from one ...

Comparatively, 20 g/day intakes of total sucrose (table sugar) and total sugar (the sum of all naturally occurring and added sugars in the diet) showed an inverse association with T2D, hinting at a ...

Though sugar beets make sucrose, which hummingbirds prefer, the plants store their sucrose sugar in enlarged taproots where it’s not accessible to hummingbirds.