table sugar
Granulated kitchen sweetener
Table sugar is the common granulated sugar used in cooking and sweetening beverages—sucrose refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
The term distinguishes it from other sugars like brown sugar, powdered sugar, or the sugars found naturally in fruits and milk: The recipe calls for two cups of table sugar.
- disaccharideTwo-monosaccharide compound
- sweetenerAdditive reducing bitterness
- cane fieldsAgricultural land growing sugarcane
- crystallizationForming ordered solid structure
- bakingCooking with dry heat
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Unrefined, unprocessed edibles
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