Sugar - Navo

• Did you know Sugar is very DANGEROUS TO YOUR KIDNEY.
• Sugar is the generalized name for sweet, short-chain, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.
• They are carbohydrates, composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Almost all sugars have the formula CnH2nOn (n is between 3 and 7). Glucose has the molecular formula C6H12O6.
• There are various types of sugar derived from different sources. Simple sugars are called monosaccharides and include glucose (also known as dextrose), fructose and galactose.
• The table or granulated sugar most customarily used as food is sucrose, a disaccharide.
• The world produced about 168 million tonnes of sugar in 2011. The average person consumes about 24 kilograms of sugar each year (33.1 kg in industrialised countries), equivalent to over 260 food calories per person, per day.