Saturday, 25 April 2015

Sucrose 101




What is sucrose?sucrose or the famous name for it "sugar" is a type of disaccharide  which is the combination of glucose and fructose thus it become sucrose. So what about the taste? is there any thing that sweeter than sucrose?. The answer is yes, the sweetness of sucrose derive from fructose thus compare to sucrose and fructose itself fructose is much more sweeter than sucrose. 

Sucrose + water = syrup

Syrup is a mixture of water with sucrose even for a little amount of it, it is still be considered as syrup. When sucrose is dissolve in water, it acquire the ability  crystallize. For example caramel is the product of crystallization of sucrose. But we can interrupt the ability of sucrose with just as simple as orange juice. 

There a lot more things you did not know about sucrose and I will reveal it all about it !!!   

p/s: I like to call it sugar than sucrose

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