CALORIC SWEETENERS

Processed:

• Confectioner's sugar (also known as powdered sugar) is finely ground sucrose.
• Corn sweeteners are sugars made from corn (for example, corn syrup). Corn syrup is used frequently in carbonated beverages, baked goods, and some canned products. It is a liquid combination of maltose, glucose, and dextrose sugars
• Dextrose is glucose combined with water.
• Invert sugar is a sugar that is made by dividing sucrose into its two parts: glucose and fructose. It is sweeter than sucrose and used in a liquid form, and helps keep candies and baked items sweet.
• Sucrose includes raw sugar, granulated sugar, brown sugar, confectioner's sugar, and turbinado sugar. It is made up of glucose and fructose. It is made by concentrating sugar beet juice or sugar cane.
• Turbinado sugar is unrefined sugar made from sugar cane juice.

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Review Date: 05/03/2009
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

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