How to Use table sugar in a Sentence

table sugar

noun
  • In the case of table sugar, or sucrose, that’s at about 340 degrees, McGee says.
    Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The new compound can be more than fifty times sweeter than table sugar.
    Mark Kurlansky, Bon Appétit, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Most of us get our fructose from table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup.
    Richard Johnson, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Glucose is not sweet, but fructose is very sweet and gives table sugar its sweet taste.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2022
  • Fructose is the other half of table sugar in addition to glucose, and it's found in fruit.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • And glucose is found in things like white rice, white bread, potatoes, table sugar is about half glucose.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • Most of it goes to giant mills where table sugar is centrifuged and crystallized.
    New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
  • For the same amount of carbohydrate, table sugar will prompt a much bigger spike in blood glucose than a few bites of apple.
    Jill U. Adams, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Wonder about a berry, grown in the rainforests of southern Nigeria, that is more than a thousand times sweeter than our table sugar.
    Laura Manske, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The coating for a candy apple is made from table sugar and corn syrup, flavored with cinnamon and colored with red food dye.
    Helen Czerski, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Compare that to one tablespoon of table sugar, which contains 16 grams of carbs and no nutrients.
    Health.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Some examples include fructose (found in fruit), lactose (found in milk), and sucrose (found in table sugar).
    Julie Stewart, SELF, 25 Mar. 2021
  • In addition to tasting sweet on your tongue, a spoonful of table sugar — in a cup of coffee, for example — will cause the sugar, or glucose, level in your blood to rise.
    Jill U. Adams, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Both are also sweeter than table sugar, which some experts say could prime children to crave ever-sweeter foods.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • The taste derived from L-aspartyl-L-phenylalnine methyl ester, a dipeptide of amino acids that is 200 times sweeter than sucrose or table sugar.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The second group was given an equally sweet beverage with table sugar.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Simply put, maple sugar is plain table sugar with a natural coating of maple flavor.
    Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015
  • In other words, to make high-fructose corn syrup sweeter than table sugar from sugarcane, the proportion of fructose can be increased.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2022
  • Monk fruit extract contains zero calories, zero carbs, and is about 150 times sweeter than table sugar.
    Stacey Hugues, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2023
  • While the main source of carbohydrate in breast milk is lactose, the main source of carbohydrate in formula may be lactose, or something else like corn syrup or table sugar.
    Susan Reslewic Keatley, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Now, straight table sugar would be difficult to stomach, but there are companies who have packaged maple syrup into small serving sizes.
    Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2023
  • But in the thick sugar solution, the sucrose from the table sugar mixes with glucose from the corn syrup, creating a jumble of molecules with two different shapes.
    Helen Czerski, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Agave has been touted as a healthier alternative to table sugar due to its low glycemic index, which is a measure of how a food impacts one’s blood glucose levels.
    Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • This light treacle, or golden syrup, is a byproduct of sugar refining that's made from sucrose, which is regular table sugar.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Sweeter Than Sugar Artificial sweeteners can be hundreds and thousands of times sweeter than table sugar, which is why just a small packet of Splenda still packs a punch.
    Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The four most common forms of simple sugars include glucose, fructose (a.k.a fruit sugar), sucrose (a.k.a table sugar), and lactose (a.k.a. dairy sugar).
    Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Sugar of any type is also out, including table sugar, brown sugar, honey, molasses, agave and coconut sugar.
    Molly Kimball, nola.com, 11 June 2019
  • White table sugar may be delicious, but there is actually no nutritional need for it.
    Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2022
  • One simple way to caramelize table sugar is by heating: this process removes water from the disaccharide sucrose (a substance composed of two simple sugars) and breaks it down into monosaccharides fructose and glucose.
    Catherine Hu, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2014
  • One breakthrough ingredient is unfermentable, zero-calorie monk fruit extract, which is hundreds of times sweeter than table sugar.
    Joshua M. Bernstein, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2020

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