We expect to find sugar in foods such as cakes and cookies, but other foods such as canned vegetables and catsup are full of sugar, too. Sugars are a kind of carbohydrate. Carbohydrates include sugars, starches, cellulose, and other compounds. An essential nutrient, carbohydrates are the human body's main source of both quick and sustained energy. When people eat sugar, it does not give them any important nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, fiber, or proteins.
Sugar has many names.
You will see it listed as honey, raw sugar, turbinado sugar, brown sugar, confectioner's sugar, powdered sugar, fructose, dextrose, glucose, molasses, corn syrup, maltose, sucrose, xylitol, or mannitol. It may be hard to know how much sugar a food has in it, because many of these sources may be found within one food. Once any form of sugar gets into the body, there is little difference in how the body uses it. Some people think honey or raw sugar is better because it has some vitamins in it. But, the amount of vitamins they contain is very small.