Sugar - Pure Sucrose Crystals, Natural Fruity Flavor From Fructose And Glucose, Ideal For Baking And Cooking

The white stuff we know as sugar is sucrose, a molecule composed of 12 atoms of carbon, 22 atoms of hydrogen, and 11 atoms of oxygen (C12H22O11). Like all compounds made from these three elements, sugar is a carbohydrate. Ita s found naturally in most plants, but especially in sugarcane and sugar beetsa hence their names.
Sucrose is actually two simpler sugars stuck together: fructose and glucose. In recipes, a little bit of acid (for example, some lemon juice or cream of tartar) will cause sucrose to break down into these two components.
If you look closely at dry sugar, youa ll notice it comes in little cubelike shapes. These are sugar crystals, orderly arrangements of sucrose molecules.