Tagatose is not an artificial sweetener, but is a breakdown product of glucose, and is very similar to the sugar galactose, ...

Compared with common sugars such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose, tagatose exists only in tiny amounts in nature. It appears in milk and dairy products when lactose is broken down by heat or enzymes ...

Sweet salvation? Scientists at Tufts University have discovered a way to produce a safe dupe for sucrose, AKA table sugar. Better yet, the sweet stuff has significantly fewer calories, minimal impact ...

Sugar-reduction solutions, such as natural and artificial sweeteners, have had varying levels of success. And many have ...

Consuming sucrose, the more “natural form of sugar,” may be as bad for your health as consuming high fructose corn syrup, according to a UC Davis, study published in the Journal of Clinical ...

An international team of researchers says that a genetic variation in our ability to digest certain sugars may influence how much we like sweet foods -- and how much we consume. motortion - ...

One of the earliest references to sugar we have dates to 510BC, when Emperor Darius I of what was then Persia invaded India.

A research team identified SlSWEET10a (Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporter 10a) as a plasma-localized sucrose transporter that interacts with SlSWEET14, playing a crucial role in regulating ...

We’re all familiar with sugar, that tasty white matter we bake into our cookies and stir into our drinks, but what you may know as “sugar” is actually only one of many chemical compounds. On a ...