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Any of numerous sweet, colourless organic compounds that dissolve readily in water and occur in the sap of seed plants and the milk of mammals.
Sugars (whose names end in -ose ) are the simplest sucrose , a disaccharide; there are numerous others, including glucose and fructose (both monosaccharide s); invert sugar (a 50:50 mixture of glucose and fructose produced by enzyme action on sucrose); and maltose (produced in the malting of barley) and lactose (both disaccharides). Commercial production of sugars is almost entirely for food.
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fruit sugar
corn sugar
grape sugar
table sugar
Leonard Sugar Ray
Robinson Sugar Ray
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sugar beet