sucrose

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Tagatose delivers about 92% of the sweetness of sucrose -- table sugar -- while containing roughly 60% fewer calories.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

Sugar beets — root vegetables that contain high levels of sucrose — are used to produce more than half the sugar in the U.S., alongside sugar cane.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025

Added sugars can also be found on the ingredients list, often labeled as glucose, fructose, maltose or sucrose.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2024

Early research on rats suggested that sucrose keeps animals hooked.

From Scientific American • Sep. 11, 2023

You have to have the factory right there, because sugar starts losing sucrose within hours of being picked.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell