refined sugar
White granulated sweetener
Refined sugar is sugar that has been processed to remove molasses, minerals, and other impurities, leaving pure white crystals.
The term usually refers to sucrose from sugarcane or sugar beets.
The recipe calls for refined sugar, not raw.
In health discussions, refined sugar often carries negative connotations, contrasted with supposedly more natural sweeteners.
- sucroseGlucose-fructose disaccharide
- crystallizationForming ordered solid structure
- glycemic indexCarbohydrate blood sugar rating
- caramelizationSugar's heat transformation
- high fructose corn syrupProcessed corn-based sweetener
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- processed materialstreated wood, tanned leather, tempered glass, galvanized steel, vulcanized rubber
- sweetenershoney, maple syrup, sucrose, fructose, glucose
- Caribbean tradebanana, bauxite, coffee beans, cigars, nutmeg
- Sugar termssucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose, lactose
- sugar tradesucrose, molasses, muscovado, turbinado
- obesity factorsfast food, junk food, soda, sedentary lifestyle, processed food
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Minimally processed cane crystals
turbinado sugar · jaggery · piloncillo · molasses · brown sugar
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Unrefined, unprocessed edibles
raw honey · natural sugars · fruit · maple syrup · blackstrap molasses
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