How to Use simple sugar in a Sentence

simple sugar

noun
  • Use this simple sugar cookie dough as the base for any sweet treat.
    — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 2 Aug. 2019
  • That’s the worst diet, and a close second is diets loaded with simple sugar and white flour.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2018
  • Just cut simple sugar cookies into hearts, bake and frost with royal icing.
    — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Tagatose is a monosaccharide, or simple sugar, just like fructose and glucose.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Agriprocessing like corn wet-milling convert the starches to simple sugars.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Is there any more perfect dessert at Christmastime than the simple sugar cookie?
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Other examples of easy-to-eat simple sugars include sports beans, fruit drops, and even thin, cookielike waffles.
    — Laura Schwecherl, SELF, 6 Oct. 2018
  • These are very simple sugar cookies with Special K cereal mixed in.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2020
  • One common one is D-mannose, a simple sugar that's similar to glucose.
    — Joni Sweet, Health.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Watermelon—the real kind, with plenty of water and simple sugars.
    — Julie Brown, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
  • Agave is high in fructose, a type of simple sugar that may increase the risk of specific diseases if consumed excessively.
    — Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2025
  • To do so, Café Kitsuné employees use simple sugar syrup, agave syrup for a lower glycemic impact, or vanilla.
    — Isabella Milano, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2025
  • As mentioned, fructose, a simple sugar, appears to have a key role in activating this survival switch that leads to fat production.
    — Richard Johnson, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022
  • That means that our digestive system breaks them down more slowly into glucose and other simple sugars prior to absorption.
    — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Wood frogs use the simple sugar molecule glucose, Larson explains, to protect their cells while their bodies are freezing.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2014
  • The protein fermentation feedstock is normally based on a simple sugar.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Commercial baking meant that Girl Scouts could start selling other options than just the simple sugar cookie.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The sunlight’s energy that was captured and stored earlier is used to fuel reactions that create a simple sugar from the carbon.
    — Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The making of marshmallows has since evolved so that now they are created by aerating a mixture of simple sugar syrup and gelatin to form a foam that stabilizes once the gelatin sets.
    — Mai Nguyen, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2015
  • One common ingredient is D-mannose, which is a simple sugar similar to glucose.
    — Joni Sweet, Health.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The end product — honey — consists of simple sugar molecules, mostly fructose and glucose, which can be easily used by the body for energy.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 15 June 2020
  • Bake simple sugar cookies, whip up a few colored icings, assemble all the supplies, and gather the kids to express their creativity on a cookie canvas!
    — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 14 Nov. 2023
  • And there are studies showing that in the long term, non keto eating plans that are low in simple sugar and carbs but include fruits and whole grains produce similar results to the ketogenic diet.
    — Sheah Rarback, miamiherald, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Those sugars are the key to making biofuels, because once the polymers are broken down into simple sugars, those sugars can be fermented into liquid biomass.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Our most common lame attempt at checking this box is to consume lots of white bread which is virtually devoid of whole grains, is low in nutrients and fiber, and the white flour breaks down like simple sugar in the body.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Her research group has developed enzymes that change simple sugars to isobutanol, an energy-rich substance used in the production of biofuels and plastics.
    — Joanna Sugden, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2018
  • The drug, given intravenously, circulates to the tumor and gets tagged for excretion in the liver, where it is rendered harmless by the addition of a simple sugar.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
  • One reason for this might be that your body quickly converts these high-glycemic-index foods into simple sugars, which triggers a flood of insulin that can magnify the effect androgens have on acne.
    — Allure Staff, Allure, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Key Takeaways The body breaks down food into glucose (a simple sugar) and releases it into the bloodstream, where it is carried to cells to fuel the body's systems.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Aspartame, for example, undergoes a different metabolic process that doesn’t yield simple sugars.
    — Eunice Zhang, Washington Post, 3 June 2018

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