Sugar is an important source of metabolite energy in foods and its formation in plants is an essential factor in the life process. Sugar typically made from sugar beet or sugar cane is not harmful unless large amounts are consumed over time.
Refined sugar means the white crystallized sugar obtained by refining of plantation white sugar. It shall b be free from dirt, filth, iron filings, and added coloring matter.
It has many uses as a food additive other than just sweetening. It acts as a tenderizer by absorbing water and inhibiting flour gluten development, as well as slowing down starch gelling.
It mixes air into shortening in the creaming process and caramelizes under heat, to provide cooked and baked foods with pleasing color and aroma.
Within a few years, the food industry began replacing some of the sugar it used with the new product, HFCS.
Though scientists can alter the fructose content of HFCS to vary its sweetness, the most common versions of this food additive in manufacturing taste is about as sweet as refined sugar.
Sugar as food additive
