Sugar Sugar Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. The various types of sugar are derived from different sources. Simple sugars are called monosaccharides and include glucose (also known as dextrose), fructose, and galactose. "Table sugar" or "granulated sugar" refers to sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose. In the body, sucrose is hydrolysed into fructose and glucose. Sucrose is used in prepared foods (e.g. cookies and cakes), is sometimes added to commercially available beverages, and may be used by people as a sweetener for foods (e.g. toast and cereal) and beverages
Proper noun proper name but a so-called common name (somewhat misleadingly, because this is not intended as a contrast with the term "proper name"). Such capitalization indicates that the term is a conventional designation for exactly that species ("Sialia currucoides"), not for just any bluebird that happens to live in the mountains. Words or phrases derived from proper names are generally capitalized, even when they are not themselves proper names. For example, "Londoner" is capitalized because it derives from the proper name "London", but it is not itself a proper name (it can be limited: "the Londoner", "some Londoners"). Similarly, "African", "Africanize",