SWEETENERS

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SWEETENERS

• From foukeffa.org
• Written by Teri Micke
• Ag Student Texas AM

GA Ag Ed Curriculum Office To accompany the
Georgia Agriculture Education Curriculum Course
02431 June, 2002
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DISACCHARIDES (2 simple sugars)

• Sucrose (table sugar)
• glucose fructose
• maltose glucose glucose
• lactose galactose glucose

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MONOSACCHARIDES

• SUGAR MOLECULE SWEETNESS LEVEL
• Fructose 173
• Sucrose 100
• Glucose 74
• Maltose 32
• Galactose 32
• Lactose 16

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POLYSACCHARIDE

• Many monosaccharides linked together in a huge
  chain
• examples starch
• cellulose
• glycogen

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ARTIFICAL SWEETENERS

• as little as 15 times sweeter than sucrose
  (sweetness level of 1500)
• use less, decrease calories
• not a carb - made of amino acids

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Example artificial sweeteners

• aspartame
• saccharin