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List of sugars

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Sugars and Sugar Products:
Brown sugar
Milk caramel candies
– Indian jaggery
Agave syrup
– Arabinose

Types of Sugar:
– Beet sugar high in sucrose
Birch syrup with fructose and glucose
Barley malt syrup with maltose
Coconut sugar with sucrose, glucose, and fructose
Date sugar

Sugar Derivatives:
– Dextrin from starch
– Inositol from corn
Maltose disaccharide
Trehalose alpha-linked disaccharide
Xylose sugar alcohol

Sweetening Agents:
– High fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
Golden syrup from sugar cane
Maple sugar and syrup
Molasses from sugar beets or cane
Honey made of fructose and glucose

Other Sugar-Related Products:
Caramel made of various sugars
– Carob syrup from carob pods
– Evaporated cane juice
Grape sugar and grape juice
– White and yellow sugar

List of sugars (Wikipedia)

This is a list of sugars and sugar products. Sugar is the generalized name for sweet, short-chain, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. They are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. There are various types of sugar derived from different sources.

Sugarcane and bowl of sugar

Generally speaking, chemical names ending in -ose indicate sugars. "Syrup" indicates a sugary solution.

Malting is a way of processing starchy grains like wheat and barley into sugar, so "malt extract" will be mostly sugar. Sugar is mostly extracted from plants by juicing them, then drying the purified juice, so "evaporated cane juice crystals" or "concentrated grape juice" are also very similar to pure sugars.

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