
A class of typically sweet tasting carbohydrates. Liquid chromatography can be used to analyse the different types of sugar present. Sugar is the preferred energy source of many living things, examples include glucose – broken down from carbohydrates, used in respiration and a product of photosynthesis. Table sugar is a disaccharide, sucrose.
See Best Practice nutrition analysis in MFS Learning Acacdemy.

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