The “brass ring” of ingredients for better-for-you foods and beverages was often said to be a “sugar replacer” that has the ...

The authors identified a genomic region shared by sweet ... of reducing fruit sugar content to some extent (they act semi-redundantly). Both kinases interact with the enzyme sucrose synthase ...

An international team of researchers says that a genetic variation in our ability to digest certain sugars may influence how ...

The watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a large, sweet ... and sucrose. Watermelon also provides a small amount of fiber. The glycemic index (GI) — a measure of how quickly foods raise blood ...

With the exception of the carbohydrates in fruits ... create the sweet taste of foods and beverages to which they are added. Table sugar, sucrose, is a disaccharide composed of two monosaccharide ...

But fruits are also incredibly sweet, so does the fructose in fruit also cause weight gain? Can it be bad for the body if it’s a natural food? Let’s first understand ... glucose belong to ...