sugar

Summary

sugar is an excipient^[1]. sugar draws 5,472 Wikipedia views per month (excipient category, ranking #1 of 8).^[2]

Key Facts

• sugar's instance of is recorded as excipient^[3].
• sugar's instance of is recorded as group or class of chemical substances^[4].
• sugar's instance of is recorded as sweetener^[5].
• sugar's instance of is recorded as commodity^[6].
• -ose is named after sugar^[7].
• sugar is a type of carbohydrate^[8].
• sugar's Commons category is recorded as Sugars^[9].
• sugar's said to be the same as is recorded as carbohydrate^[10].
• sugar's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sugar^[11].
• sugar's Commons gallery is recorded as Sugar^[12].
• sugar's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[13].
• sugar's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[14].
• sugar's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[15].
• sugar's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[16].
• sugar's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[17].
• sugar's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[18].
• sugar's has characteristic is recorded as hygroscopy^[19].
• sugar's different from is recorded as beta-L-fructo-furanose^[20].
• sugar's different from is recorded as maltose^[21].
• sugar's different from is recorded as α-lactose^[22].
• sugar's different from is recorded as glucose^[23].
• sugar's different from is recorded as carbohydrate^[24].
• sugar's different from is recorded as sugar product^[25].
• sugar's different from is recorded as sucrose^[26].
• sugar's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00003970^[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include excipient^[3], group or class of chemical substances^[4], sweetener^[5], and commodity^[6]. sugar is a type of carbohydrate^[8].

Origins

-ose is named after sugar^[7].

Influence

Things named for sugar include Kant^[28], a city or town^[29], in Kyrgyzstan^[30], founded in 1934^[31]; syntactic sugar^[32]; and Lump of Sugar^[33], a joint-stock company^[34], in Japan^[35], founded in 2005^[36], headquartered in Taitō-ku^[37].

Why It Matters

sugar draws 5,472 Wikipedia views per month (excipient category, ranking #1 of 8).^[2] sugar has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[38] sugar is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[39]

Entities named for sugar include Kant^[28], a city or town^[29], in Kyrgyzstan^[30], founded in 1934^[31]; syntactic sugar^[32]; and Lump of Sugar^[33], a joint-stock company^[34], in Japan^[35], founded in 2005^[36], headquartered in Taitō-ku^[37].