Sugar The sugar contents of common fruits and vegetables are presented in Table 1. The fructose to fructose plus glucose ratio is calculated by including the fructose and glucose coming from the sucrose. Due to rising demand, sugar production in general increased some 14% over the period 2009 to 2018. The largest importers were China, Indonesia, and the United States. In 2016, global production of sugar beets was 277 million tonnes, led by Russia with 19% of the world total (table). The sugar beet became a major source of sugar in the 19th century when methods for extracting the sugar became
Proper noun and the like, some proper names contain no noun and are not formed as noun phrases (the film "Being There"; "Hi De Ho" as a nickname for Cab Calloway and as the title of a film about him). Proper names are also referred to (by linguists) as "naming expressions". Sometimes they are called simply "names"; but that term is also used more broadly (as in ""chair" is the name for something we sit on"); the latter type of name is called a "common name" to distinguish it from a "proper name". Common nouns are frequently used as components of proper