What are sugar?

Sugar, when we talked about sugar, just what do we meant and how it affects the health in despite of its SWEETNESS?

Sugar mainly grouped into two categories: simple and complex, where simple sugar belongs to a group called monosaccharides which our body don’t need to break them down.

And the complex sugar belongs to a group known as disaccharides which the body needs to break down in order to use it.

So what are the components of these simple sugar?

For some of you may already know, simple sugar: monosaccharides, AKA blood sugar such as glucose and fructose. When the body encounters these, they would just absorb them without further ado; straight into the blood streams.

However, the other, disaccharides, would be better known to us in food such as SUGAR!

What?! So far, after the science class above, we just back to where we started with, SUGAR!

As it turned out, sugar is called sucrose for those scientists wearing white coats, studying its molecular structures under a microscope.
Sucrose consists of half glucose and half fructose, just so happens, these two; like brothers, helping each other to be absorbed in our digestive systems.
Also, just happened to be in the group, monosaccharides which is SIMPLE sugar. Simply put it this way, no matter how you think it or eat it; the sugar you ate (hmm, yum), Sweet!, and when it reached
your stomach it would be broken down into a lovely pair (glucose and fructose): Simply delicious as our stomach would put it, SIMPLE sugar.

After all that analogy, hope that you still would find SUGAR are sweet, no matter how you put it; in you mouth or into your stomach!

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