Sugars Flashcards
What are the three major groups of natural sweetners?
Sugars
Syrups
Sugar Alcohols
What are some other sweetness?
Nonnutritive sweetness
Candy
Frozen desserts
Where does sugar can come from?
South Asia
How is sugar produced?
from the sugar cane, can produce table sugar.
How does cane sugar refining work?
1) Sugar can harvested
2) Sugar cane juice by crushing
3) Partial purification to raw cane sugar
4) Melting and filtering to remove impurities
5) Crystallization of sugar from syrup
6) Drying of sugar crystals
Formation of sugar!
How does sugar beet processing?
1) Sugar beet harvesting
2) Sugar beet juice by washing and slicing
3) Cleaning to remove impurities
4) Crystallization of sugar from syrup
5) Drying of sugar crystals
Formation of sugar!
In making beet sugar, the FIRST step: beets are washed then sliced to become ______ then soaked in hot water producing ____
Cossettes, Juice
In making beet sugar, the SECOND step: Juice is purified by lime and CO2 to become _____ and evaporated to concentrate, producing ____
Thin juice, Thick juice
In making beet sugar, the THIRD step: thick juice undergoes more ______ producing sugar crystals ______
Evaporation, suspended in syrup.
In making beet sugar, the FOURTH step: The sugar crystals suspended in syrup will undergo a ____ and produce what 3 things?
-Centrifugal process separates cysts and syrup.
Produces Syrup, beet molasses and crystals.
How is the syrup re-processed into thick juice/
Will produce more sugar crystals which are deleted with thin juice, then added to thick juice.
How are beet molasses processed?
Final syrup produced from centrifugal machines after 3 crystallization stages.
What do the crystals produce?
Sugar
What are simple carbohydrates?
Monosaccharides and disaccharides
What are some monosacharrides?
Glucose
Fructose
Galactose
What are some dissacharides?
Lactose
Sucrose
Maltose
What are complex carbohydrates?
Polysaccharides
What are some polysaccharides?
Glycogen
Starch
Dietary Fiber
What is sucrose?
- Table sugar
- Derived from either sugar cane or sugar beets
What is glucose?
Dextrose
- Basic building block of most carbohydrates
- major sugar found in blood
What is fructose?
Levulose or fruit sugar
Found naturally in fruits and honest
Sweetest of all granted sugars
What is maltose?
- Malt sugar
- Lends certain milk shakes and candies their characteristic malt taste
Lactose
Disaccharide
Least sweet of all sugars, extracted from whey
What are some examples of commercially available SUCROSE?
- Granulated sugar
- Powdered/icing/confectioner’s sugar
- Brown sugar
What is granulated sugar? What are some other names?
Pure sucrose, naturally white. Also called refined sugar, table sugar and white sugar.
What is powdered sugar?
Finely ground granulated sugar with 3% cornstarch
What is brown sugar?What are some other names?
Crystallizing golden sugar liquid or adding molasses to pure white sugar crystals.
Names indicate colours, amount of molasses and moisture.
Other names include dark brown, light brown, Dmerara, Muscovado, and Turbinado
What are some examples of syrup?
- Corn Syrup
- High-fructose corn syrup
- Molasses
- Maple syrup
- Inverted sugar
- Honey
What is corn syrup?
75% sugar, 25% water
Hydrolyses cornstarch
Dextrose equivalents (DE) vary
What is High fructose corn syrup?
42-55% fructose
What are molasses?
Mostly sucrose
What is maple syrup?
Mostly sucrose
What is inverted sugar?
Sucrose hydrolyzed into glucose and fructose.e 50% fructose.
What is honey?
40% fructose, 35% glucose and has the same relative sweetness as granulated sugar
What is sugar inversion?
In the presence of acid and heat, sucrose is hydrolyzed to glucose and fructose (equal quantities)
What are some characteristics of inverted sugar?
Sweeter, resists crystallization, helps retain moisture
What are some examples of items that can have inverted sugar? How?
Molasses, cocoa, fruit juices, honey, fruits which all contain acids. Prolonged heating of these foods lead to inversion of their sugars,
Describe the 5 steps of honey production
1) Bees collect nectar
2) Theur enzymes convert sucrose to FRU + GLU
3) they deposit nectar on honeycombs
4) Water evaporates
5) bee enzymes develop flavour
How many flowers to produce one lb of honey?
2 million flowers
The average worker bee makes ____ of honey in lifetime
1/2 tsp
Sugar alcohols are referred to as ___ which are the ___
Polyols
the alcohol counterpart of a variety of sugars
Sugar alcohols occur naturally in small amounts in ___
fruits and vegetables
Are sugar alcohols sweeter than sucrose? what are they resistant to? How man calories do they provide?
LESS sweet than sucrose, resistant to digestion and therefore only provide 0.2-3kcal/g
Polyols are used to sweeten foods with what kinds of labels?
“sugar free”
“no added sugar”
What can polyols cause?
Possible GI distress
List some polyols permitted for use as food additives in Canada?
- hydrogenated starch hydrolysates
- isomalt
- lacititil
- matitol
- maltitiol syrup
- sorbitol
- sorbitol syrup
- xylitol
- erythritol
Give an example of an allowed claim for use of a sugar polyol.
“Chewing 1 piece (2.7 g) of sugar free gum 3 times per day after meals may help reduce the sis of tooth decay.
Nonnutritive sweetness are also known as __
alternative sweeteners
alternative sweeteners provide ___
minimal to no energy
Name some alternative sweetness approved for use in Canada:
- Acesulfame K
- Aspartame
- Sucralose
- Saccharin
- Neotame
- Steviol Glycosides
List 4 first generation sweetners
1) Saccharine
2) Cyclamate
3) Asparate
4) Sucralose
List 4 new generation sweetners
1) Acesulfame-k
2) Sucralose
3) Alitame
4) Neotame
What is Heremesatas?
Brand name by weight
Describe saccharin
- oldest artificial sweetener
- non nutritive
- heat stable
- rapidly excreted in uringe
- 300x sweeter than sugar, slightyl bitter aftertaste
Should saccharin be limited during pregnancy?
Yes
What is NutraSweet or Equal ?
Aspartame
How many kcal/g in aspartame? How many times sweeter than sugar? Which AA are found and who should avoid aspartame?
- 4 kcal/g and only needed in small amounts
- 200 x sweeter than sugar (non-nutritive)
- made out of aspartic acid and phenylalanine and therefore people with PKU should avoid.
Is aspartame heat stable?
No
is aspartame acceptable during pregnancy ?
Yes!
What does diet coke contains?
Aspartame
What is splenda?
Sucralose
What does non nutritive mean?
Not digested