Sugar is a common part of Americans' nutritional intake. Here's how sugar is created, starting with how it's produced on ...

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 ...

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

Artificial sweeteners were supposed to make sugary foods and beverages healthier, but today, some of the most popular zero-calorie substitutes are raising new concerns. An up-and-coming natural ...

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

Unlike sucrose, D-tagatose delivers nearly the same sensory experience. It is about 92% as sweet as table sugar, yet provides only "one-third of the calories".

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

According to the University of California Sugar Science Team, added sugar is hiding in 74% of packaged foods sold in grocery stores. No wonder Americans end up eating around 57 pounds of added sugar ...