How to Use table sugar in a Sentence

table sugar

noun
  • Most of us get our fructose from table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup.
    — Richard Johnson, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Glucose is not sweet, but fructose is very sweet and gives table sugar its sweet taste.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2022
  • Cane sugar is used as table sugar, which is added to foods and drinks like tea, coffee, and oatmeal.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 3 Mar. 2025
  • And glucose is found in things like white rice, white bread, potatoes, table sugar is about half glucose.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • White sugar or table sugar is processed from sugar cane plants or sugar beets.
    — Barbie Cervoni, Verywell Health, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Most of it goes to giant mills where table sugar is centrifuged and crystallized.
    — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
  • For example, table sugar is a unit of glucose bonded with a unit of fructose.
    — Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Fructose is the other half of table sugar in addition to glucose, and it's found in fruit.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
  • The second group was given an equally sweet beverage with table sugar.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2020
  • For the same amount of carbohydrate, table sugar will prompt a much bigger spike in blood glucose than a few bites of apple.
    — Jill U. Adams, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Both are also sweeter than table sugar, which some experts say could prime children to crave ever-sweeter foods.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • Simply put, maple sugar is plain table sugar with a natural coating of maple flavor.
    — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015
  • The finish starts with more sharp white pepper, grapefruit, table sugar, sweeter oak, peach pits, hints of black licorice and cherry cough drop.
    — Chris Perugini, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The coating for a candy apple is made from table sugar and corn syrup, flavored with cinnamon and colored with red food dye.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • In the case of table sugar, or sucrose, that’s at about 340 degrees, McGee says.
    — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Some examples include fructose (found in fruit), lactose (found in milk), and sucrose (found in table sugar).
    — Julie Stewart, SELF, 25 Mar. 2021
  • High fructose corn syrup usage in the US has declined over the last two decades while table sugar, made from cane or beet, has been on the rise.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Wonder about a berry, grown in the rainforests of southern Nigeria, that is more than a thousand times sweeter than our table sugar.
    — Laura Manske, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Compare that to one tablespoon of table sugar, which contains 16 grams of carbs and no nutrients.
    — Health.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Now, straight table sugar would be difficult to stomach, but there are companies who have packaged maple syrup into small serving sizes.
    — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Now, straight table sugar would be difficult to stomach, but there are companies that have packaged maple syrup into small serving sizes.
    — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2023
  • White table sugar may be delicious, but there is actually no nutritional need for it.
    — Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2022
  • In other words, to make high-fructose corn syrup sweeter than table sugar from sugarcane, the proportion of fructose can be increased.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2022
  • Monk fruit extract contains zero calories, zero carbs, and is about 150 times sweeter than table sugar.
    — Stacey Hugues, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2023
  • This light treacle, or golden syrup, is a byproduct of sugar refining that's made from sucrose, which is regular table sugar.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Simple carbs are natural, digestible sugars such as ones found in foods like milk (lactose), table sugar (sucrose) and fruit (fructose).
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
  • While this may seem counterintuitive, many birds can’t process sucrose (table sugar) properly.
    — Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 24 May 2026
  • This is because honey contains mainly fructose, a type of sugar with a lower glycemic index than glucose and the sucrose found in table sugar.
    — Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 25 June 2025
  • These sweeteners are typically low- or zero-calorie and are much sweeter than table sugar.
    — Hannah Harper, Health, 3 Mar. 2026
  • That’s because starch is metabolized into glucose — sometimes faster than table sugar.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 23 May 2026

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