sugars Definition

a sweet crystallizable material that consists wholly or essentially of sucrose, is colorless or white when pure tending to brown when less refined, is obtained commercially from sugarcane or sugar beet and less extensively from sorghum, maples, and palms, and is important as a source of dietary carbohydrate and as a sweetener and preservative of other foods

any of various water-soluble compounds that vary widely in sweetness, include the monosaccharides and oligosaccharides, and typically are optically active

a unit (such as a spoonful, cube, or lump) of sugar

to make palatable or attractive : sweeten

to sprinkle or mix with sugar

to form or be converted into sugar

the glucose in the blood; also : its concentration (as in milligrams per 100 milliliters)

soft sugar whose crystals are covered by a film of refined dark syrup

sugar from sugarcane

finely granulated white sugar

a refined finely powdered sugar

dextrose

a coarse light-brown raw sugar

dextrose