Scientific understanding of sucrose

Today's "sugar-free", "sugar substitute" and "zero-calorie" have become important criteria affecting consumers' choice of food, but is sucrose really useless? In fact, as a natural disaccharide sweetener, sucrose is an irreplaceable basic nutrient and an important source of energy for the human body.

Sucrose is not only a condiment that brings people a pleasant and wonderful taste, it is also a necessities of people's life and one of the sources of human nutrition

Studies have found that sugar is the only and most direct energy substance for the brain, and blood sugar is the energy of brain nerve cells.

The relationship between diabetes and sugar

Diabetes mellitus is an increasingly serious public health problem facing the world and is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia

Relevant data show that in 2021, the number of diabetic patients in China will reach 140 million, accounting for 26.

Effects of artificial sweeteners on human health

At present, artificial sweeteners (AS) with high sweetness and low energy have been widely used in the food industry and have a huge market share

Protective effect of sucrose on pancreatic islet tissue

The scientific research team of South China University of Technology studied the fasting insulin, insulin resistance index and insulin sensitivity index of experimental rats, and compared the pancreas HE slices to clarify the mechanism of sugarcane active substances improving insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) rats at the molecular level

Normal control group: Pancreatic acini and islets were not abnormal in the field of light microscope

(The author Yu Shujuan is a professor at South China University of Technology, and Kong Fansheng is an associate professor at Guangdong Pharmaceutical University)

"China Food News" (August 25, 2022 Edition 06)

(Editor-in-charge: Gao Na)