Sugars

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  • Sugars
    • What sugar does to food?
      • Sweetens
      • Flavour (removes sourness)
      • Stabilises
      • Bulking    agent (gives food texture)
      • Colour (caramelisation)
    • Natural Sweetners
      • Honey
      • Spices
      • Herbs
    • Simple Sugars
      • Monosaccharide's
        • Glucose
        • Fructose
        • Galactose
      • Disaccharide's
        • Lactose
        • Maltose
        • Sucrose
    • Too much Sugar
      • Obesity
      • Tooth decay
        • Plaque+ Sucrose=Acid  Acid+tooth=decay
    • Types of Sugar
      • Intrinsic
        • Sugar found naturally in fruit and veg
        • Better for you
      • Extrinsic
        • Sugars that are not naturally found but added by the consumer/ producer
        • Sweeteners like honey or syrup

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