How to Use table sugar in a Sentence

table sugar

noun

• In the case of table sugar, or sucrose, that’s at about 340 degrees, McGee says.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
• The new compound can be more than fifty times sweeter than table sugar.
  — Mark Kurlansky, Bon Appétit, 6 Nov. 2023
• Most of us get our fructose from table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup.
  — Richard Johnson, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022
• Glucose is not sweet, but fructose is very sweet and gives table sugar its sweet taste.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2022
• Fructose is the other half of table sugar in addition to glucose, and it's found in fruit.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• And glucose is found in things like white rice, white bread, potatoes, table sugar is about half glucose.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• Most of it goes to giant mills where table sugar is centrifuged and crystallized.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
• For the same amount of carbohydrate, table sugar will prompt a much bigger spike in blood glucose than a few bites of apple.
  — Jill U. Adams, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2018
• Wonder about a berry, grown in the rainforests of southern Nigeria, that is more than a thousand times sweeter than our table sugar.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• The coating for a candy apple is made from table sugar and corn syrup, flavored with cinnamon and colored with red food dye.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• Compare that to one tablespoon of table sugar, which contains 16 grams of carbs and no nutrients.
  — Health.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Some examples include fructose (found in fruit), lactose (found in milk), and sucrose (found in table sugar).
  — Julie Stewart, SELF, 25 Mar. 2021
• In addition to tasting sweet on your tongue, a spoonful of table sugar — in a cup of coffee, for example — will cause the sugar, or glucose, level in your blood to rise.
  — Jill U. Adams, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2018
• Both are also sweeter than table sugar, which some experts say could prime children to crave ever-sweeter foods.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• The taste derived from L-aspartyl-L-phenylalnine methyl ester, a dipeptide of amino acids that is 200 times sweeter than sucrose or table sugar.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022
• The second group was given an equally sweet beverage with table sugar.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2020
• Simply put, maple sugar is plain table sugar with a natural coating of maple flavor.
  — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015
• In other words, to make high-fructose corn syrup sweeter than table sugar from sugarcane, the proportion of fructose can be increased.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2022
• Monk fruit extract contains zero calories, zero carbs, and is about 150 times sweeter than table sugar.
  — Stacey Hugues, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2023
• While the main source of carbohydrate in breast milk is lactose, the main source of carbohydrate in formula may be lactose, or something else like corn syrup or table sugar.
  — Susan Reslewic Keatley, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• Now, straight table sugar would be difficult to stomach, but there are companies who have packaged maple syrup into small serving sizes.
  — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2023
• But in the thick sugar solution, the sucrose from the table sugar mixes with glucose from the corn syrup, creating a jumble of molecules with two different shapes.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• Agave has been touted as a healthier alternative to table sugar due to its low glycemic index, which is a measure of how a food impacts one’s blood glucose levels.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• This light treacle, or golden syrup, is a byproduct of sugar refining that's made from sucrose, which is regular table sugar.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
• Sweeter Than Sugar Artificial sweeteners can be hundreds and thousands of times sweeter than table sugar, which is why just a small packet of Splenda still packs a punch.
  — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
• The four most common forms of simple sugars include glucose, fructose (a.k.a fruit sugar), sucrose (a.k.a table sugar), and lactose (a.k.a. dairy sugar).
  — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Good Housekeeping, 29 Oct. 2020
• Sugar of any type is also out, including table sugar, brown sugar, honey, molasses, agave and coconut sugar.
  — Molly Kimball, nola.com, 11 June 2019
• White table sugar may be delicious, but there is actually no nutritional need for it.
  — Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2022
• When looking at ingredients on food or drink labels, table sugar is often listed by its chemical name: sucrose.
  — Caitlin Granfield, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• One simple way to caramelize table sugar is by heating: this process removes water from the disaccharide sucrose (a substance composed of two simple sugars) and breaks it down into monosaccharides fructose and glucose.
  — Catherine Hu, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2014

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024