It is often difficult for modern people to imagine their life without sugar. This sweet-tasting product is one of the most common and common, although at the same time people do not always know what they are consuming and what sugar is like a substance.
Instructions
Step 1
From a chemical point of view, sugar is a substance of the group of water-soluble carbohydrates, with a sweet taste and low molecular weight. These include monosaccharides and disaccharides. Monosaccharides are glucose and fructose, and disaccharides are sucrose (cane or beet sugar), maltose (malt sugar), and lactose (milk sugar).
Step 2
Most often, the word sugar is used as the name for sucrose in everyday life. Sucrose is a sweet crystalline substance isolated from the juice of sugar beet or sugar cane, and less commonly from other foods. In stores, it is usually presented in the form of granulated sugar, refined sugar made from sugar cane or beets. Sugar is a fast-digesting simple carbohydrate. In the digestive tract, sucrose is quickly broken down into glucose and fructose, and they then enter the bloodstream and go to the body's energy costs.
Step 3
The nutritional value of sugar may vary slightly depending on whether it is refined granulated sugar or brown
unrefined. On average, the calorie content of 100 g of sugar is close to 400 kcal. 100 g of carbohydrates contains about 99 g, proteins and fats are absent. Sugar can also contain small amounts of phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, potassium.
Step 4
White sugar has the following properties: white color, sweet taste; its solution is clear, without sediment and impurities. Outwardly, it is a homogeneous free-flowing mass of crystals or lumps of a certain size (in the case of lump sugar).
Step 5
Under the influence of insulin, a hormone of the pancreas, sugar is converted into glycogen and distributed in the muscles and liver, and some of it is converted into fat. It is believed that the human body's need for carbohydrates averages 400-500 g, and in old age 300-400 g.
Step 6
Nutritionists advise limiting the use of refined sugar, especially for people who are overweight. The fact is that the body reacts to a sharp surge in carbohydrates with a release of insulin, as a result of which the blood sugar level soon drops again. It is also fraught with the development of diabetes mellitus. Therefore, it is much more useful and safer to get the glucose and fructose necessary for the body from products such as fruits, dried fruits, honey, cereals. Experts say that in order to process refined sugar and turn it into energy, the body needs a number of substances (enzymes, vitamins, minerals), which are not in pure sugar and which the body has to extract from itself, which causes the organs to suffer and are washed out. for example calcium from bones.
