All About Sugar

What about soft drinks – don't they make you fat? Doesn't eating sugary foods cause a rush in blood sugar, followed by a low? Will eating sugar, and other carbohydrates, give me 'Syndrome X' or the Metabolic Syndrome?

These, and many other, questions will be answered as you browse through the Carb Facts section.

General information on sugar, types, uses, origins etc can be found in the fully-referenced Sugar – The Facts section.

And finally, for some interesting, and sometime amusing, facts about sugar, visit the Sugar Trivia section.

 

You may also like to visit the For Schools section to get some more general background on sugar. The information in this section provides a comprehensive view of the background to sugar as a foodstuff and it also chronicles the history and geography of sugar. Production methods for both beet and cane sugar are covered, together with a section on the different types of sugar and the science explaining how sugar is made by plants and sugar in nutrition.

 

For further information please also visit British Sugar plc, SilverSpoon and Tate and Lyle Sugars

• HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

  

  Visit this section to find out more about our resources – Nutrition in Practice and Patient Leaflets.

• FOR SCHOOLS

  

  Discover the history and geography of sugar, together with how it is produced.

• SCIENCE CENTRE

  

  Visit the Science Centre to read the latest research on carbohydrate nutrition.