For more than a century, food scientists have searched for ways to satisfy a sweet tooth without the health risks tied to ...

Compared with common sugars such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose, tagatose exists only in tiny amounts in nature. It ...

From saccharin in the 19th century to stevia and monk fruit in the 21st, researchers and the food industry have long sought a ...

Artificial sweeteners were supposed to make sugary foods and beverages healthier, but today, some of the most popular ...

Chemically, there are many different types of sugar. But for dietary purposes, there are only two kinds of sugars you need to concern yourself with: naturally occurring sugars and added sugars.

Scientists at Tufts have found a way to turn common glucose into a rare sugar that tastes almost exactly like table sugar—but ...

Researchers have developed a way to biosynthetically produce an otherwise rare sugar called tagatose, which can provide the ...

Support local journalism. A digital subscription is incredibly affordable and worth its weight in gold. Click here and subscribe today. When it comes to sugars, fructose is the most controversial of ...

Sucrose, glucose, and fructose are three common types of sugar that are absorbed differently and have slightly different effects on the body. Whether they occur naturally in foods or are added to them ...

Think that all sugars are the same? They may all taste sweet to the tongue, but it turns out your body can tell the difference between glucose, fructose and sucrose, and that one of these sugars is ...

Fructose and glucose are both simple monosaccharide sugars. Both starch and sugar, whether sucrose or high-fructose corn syrup (HCFS), yield glucose in large amounts when digested. Glucose is absorbed ...