### food | sweetener | sugar:

Dextrin
* are chemical compounds
  - polysaccharides
  - responsible for the body in the finished beer
  - the starches once they are processed
* is sugar
* lend body, mouth feel and palate fullness to beers, as well as foam stability
  - mouthfeel and palate fullness to beers, as well as foam stability

Excess sugar
* enters the liver and muscles where it is stored in the form of glycogen.
* is converted to fat
  - stored as fat in the body

Excessive sugar
* can contribute to hypoglycemia, a lowering of blood sugar.
* plays havoc with our insulin metabolism and leads to fatigue and fat storage.

Granulated sugar
* has small granules and is the one most often used in recipes.
* have no variations any longer.
* is best for making muffins
  - the most used sugar in making candy

Inulin
* fructan and storage carbohydrate that is found naturally in many plants.
* is the same thing that causes flatulence from beans.

### food | sweetener | sugar:

Maple sugar
* comes from the evaporated maple syrup.
* dry version of maple syrup.
* is available in many natural or gourmet food stores
  - carbohydrates
  - got from trunks of maple trees
* is obtained from the sap of maple trees
  - the ultimate flavour of Canada
+ Plant stem, Economic importance: Plant anatomy
  * There are thousands of species whose stems have economic uses. Stems provide a few major staple crops such as potato and taro. Sugar cane stems are a major source of sugar. Maple sugar is got from trunks of maple trees. Vegetables from stems are asparagus, bamboo shoots, cactus pads, kohlrabi, and water chestnut. The spice, cinnamon is bark from a tree trunk.

Much sugar
* contributes to health problems
* contributes to serious health problems

Mucopolysaccharide
* are ionic complexes and react with alcian blue ionically.
* are long chains of sugar molecules which are used in building connective tissue
  - molecular chains of sugar
  - polysaccharides

Natural sugar
* are a great substitute for sweet treats
  - major culpret in gestational diabetes
  - better than processed sugars
  - present in some of the most nutritious foods, including fruit, veggies, and milk
* damages teeth.
* refers to sugar found naturally in foods such as fruit and milk.

Oligosaccharide
* are a universal signal for attack by pathogenic microbes
  - carbohydrate molecules in grains
  - complex sugars which play an important role in animal health
  - of two types, high mannose and complex
  - one of the components of fibre , found in plants
  - polymers of sugars
* can have many functions including cell recognition and cell binding.
* saccharide polymer containing a small number of component sugars.

### food | sweetener | sugar | oligosaccharide:

Disaccharide
* are a class of sugars composed of two monosaccharide units joined together
  - just two monosaccharides hanging out with one another
  - oligosaccharides
  - one of the smallest oligosaccharides
  - simply two monosaccharides linked together by a glycosidic bond
  - sugar molecules composed of two monosaccharide units
* are two joined monosaccharides
* contain two monosaccharides joined by condensation
* is an oligosaccharide

Pure sugar
* Some pure sugar consists of fructose.
* dissolves in pure water

Sago
* are more tolerant of watering conditions than many of the rare cycads.
* much prefer to be on the dry than the wet side.