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. One disadvantage of sugar is how fast it may be absorbed into the blood stream. When whole foods, such as fruit, are eaten, sugars are released slowly from the gut into the blood stream. When mainly sugar is eaten, such as with a soda or candy bar, there is rapid absorption. This causes the blood sugar level to quickly rise, then fall.