How to Use simple sugar in a Sentence
simple sugar
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Use this simple sugar cookie dough as the base for any sweet treat.
—The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 2 Aug. 2019
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That’s the worst diet, and a close second is diets loaded with simple sugar and white flour.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2018
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The milled grains go into a mash tun, where starches are converted to simple sugars.
—Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 20 June 2018
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While the cake bakes, prep a simple sugar-citrus-butter glaze and 10 minutes after the loaf comes out of the oven, spoon the glaze over the cake and sprinkle with chopped pistachios.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
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That simple sugar fuels all the processes within the body.
—Jillian Mock, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2019
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Is there any more perfect dessert at Christmastime than the simple sugar cookie?
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2020
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Bread depends on it to make dough rise: yeasts, whether wild or lab-domesticated, consume the simple sugars found in flour.
—The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
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Agriprocessing like corn wet-milling convert the starches to simple sugars.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2020
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Make a simple sugar syrup in a large saucepan by heating up 3 cups water and 3 cups granulated sugar.
—Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 10 May 2022
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Just cut simple sugar cookies into hearts, bake and frost with royal icing.
—Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 9 Dec. 2020
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Other examples of easy-to-eat simple sugars include sports beans, fruit drops, and even thin, cookielike waffles.
—Laura Schwecherl, SELF, 6 Oct. 2018
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These are very simple sugar cookies with Special K cereal mixed in.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2020
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One common one is D-mannose, a simple sugar that's similar to glucose.
—Joni Sweet, Health.com, 14 Jan. 2022
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The making of marshmallows has since evolved so that now they are created by aerating a mixture of simple sugar syrup and gelatin to form a foam that stabilizes once the gelatin sets.
—Mai Nguyen, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2015
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They are generally made of long strings of those simple sugars, called polysaccharides (i.e. many sugars).
—Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 23 May 2019
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It's made up of the simplest sugars on the planet, allowing it to immediately enter your digestive tract and be absorbed by the cells of your bloodstream.
—Jaclyn London, Ms, Rd, Cdn, Good Housekeeping, 3 Apr. 2017
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As mentioned, fructose, a simple sugar, appears to have a key role in activating this survival switch that leads to fat production.
—Richard Johnson, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022
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Our most common lame attempt at checking this box is to consume lots of white bread which is virtually devoid of whole grains, is low in nutrients and fiber, and the white flour breaks down like simple sugar in the body.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 10 Dec. 2021
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Commercial baking meant that Girl Scouts could start selling other options than just the simple sugar cookie.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2018
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Bombarding the body with simple sugars first thing in the morning is the epitome of a rude awakening, causing a sharp rise in blood sugar followed by a steep crash, in turn raising levels of stress hormones in the body.
—Ashleigh Spitza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2017
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Wood frogs use the simple sugar molecule glucose, Larson explains, to protect their cells while their bodies are freezing.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2014
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And there are studies showing that in the long term, non keto eating plans that are low in simple sugar and carbs but include fruits and whole grains produce similar results to the ketogenic diet.
—Sheah Rarback, miamiherald, 16 Apr. 2018
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Watermelon—the real kind, with plenty of water and simple sugars.
—Julie Brown, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
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The sunlight’s energy that was captured and stored earlier is used to fuel reactions that create a simple sugar from the carbon.
—Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
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The drug, given intravenously, circulates to the tumor and gets tagged for excretion in the liver, where it is rendered harmless by the addition of a simple sugar.
—Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
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Another 25% fell into the fat/simple sugars cluster, which included sweets and desserts, but also foods such as glazed carrots and other vegetables cooked with fat and sugar.
—Kaitlyn Rohde, The Conversation, 6 Dec. 2019
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The end product — honey — consists of simple sugar molecules, mostly fructose and glucose, which can be easily used by the body for energy.
—Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 15 June 2020
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One reason for this might be that your body quickly converts these high-glycemic-index foods into simple sugars, which triggers a flood of insulin that can magnify the effect androgens have on acne.
—Allure Staff, Allure, 12 Sep. 2017
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That means that our digestive system breaks them down more slowly into glucose and other simple sugars prior to absorption.
—Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2019
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Those sugars are the key to making biofuels, because once the polymers are broken down into simple sugars, those sugars can be fermented into liquid biomass.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
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