Most people enjoy sweets.
We satisfy our sweet tooth with fruits and honey, and with extracts of grains, herbs, vegetables, tree sap, and grasses. All of these products contain sugar in different forms. As if these choices were not enough, chemists have created artificial sweeteners to meet the demand for sweet alternatives to sugar. In recent years, refined sugar, also known as white sugar or granulated sugar, has become the preferred sweetener. Not only is it unhealthy to skew the diet to one ingredient, but it also severely restricts the palate.