What types of sugar are there, and how can we eat them healthily?

Sugar is a common seasoning in daily life, and sugar components are also hidden in many foods. Many people like the sweet taste of sugar, but they only have a half-understanding of it. So besides the common brown sugar and white sugar, do you know what other types of sugar there are? Let's take a look together.

1. Brown sugar

Brown sugar is made by pressing sugarcane for juice and then initially refining, purifying and drying it. Because of this, brown sugar retains more nutrients, and its sugar content is as high as more than 80%. Brown sugar has a decent effect in tonifying qi and easing the middle, helping the spleen transform food, and invigorating blood and resolving stasis, but in fact brown sugar contains very few mineral elements, so its health benefits for the human body are very small, and its sugar content is very high, so it should not be eaten too much.

2. White sugar

When cooking, most people are used to using white sugar. Sometimes in dietary health care, we also use white sugar, because it has a certain effect of moistening the lungs and clearing lung heat. White sugar also has a certain detoxifying effect, and because white sugar has a very high sugar content, its effect is relatively quick.

3. Grape sugar

In daily life, glucose is used for intravenous drips when people are ill, and also as a supplementary food after intense exercise, so people often have a high opinion of it. In fact, the starchy foods we eat in our daily diet can be converted by the body into glucose. And after intense exercise, supplementing an appropriate amount of glucose is advisable.

4. Fructose

Fructose is almost the same as glucose, differing only in the arrangement order of atoms. Moreover, fructose is the sweetest of the sugars and also the most water-soluble. It is sweetest when cooled, so fructose is often used in cold drinks.

5. Sucrose

Sucrose is a compound molecule containing glucose and fructose molecules, and plants synthesize sucrose through photosynthesis. Only after sucrose is processed do forms such as white sugar, brown sugar and rock sugar appear, and only then does further refining produce granulated sugar, a widely used industrial product. Essentially, they are all sucrose.

6. Lactose

Lactose is usually found in milk, and it is a disaccharide. But the sweetness of lactose is far lower than that of sucrose, and its processing and use are mainly for mouthfeel rather than sweetness.

The above are introductions to several common and frequently used sugars. For the general population, as long as intake is moderate and the appropriate timing is grasped, they are beneficial to the human body. So, what other types of sugar do you know? You are welcome to leave a comment and discuss.

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