Sugars and allied

Written by Zeferino Siani on 29 March 2017.

Sugars

Sugars are a very large family of compounds.

In nature we have a lot of sugar.The specific term sugar, commonly used in food, is reserved for the sucrose, which are industrially manufactured in Italy is extracted from sugar beet, a plant typical of the temperate zones, and also elsewhere from sugar cane, a plant typical of tropical regions.