What Is Refined Sugar?

Refined sugar is unhealthy when consumed in large amounts and there are healthier options. Refined sugar has no nutrition. There are also many health risks when sugar is over consumed. Humans need carbohydrates to survive but there are many healthier way to get them than too many cookies or soda. Simple sugar is made of two components. They are mainly fructose and glucose(Dubost, June 12, 2013). Sugar is naturally produced in plants during photosynthesis. It is found naturally in milk, fruit, and vegetables. Sugar can be taken from plants and processed into manufactured products (Perry, October 28, 2016). These plants are usually GMO(Katie, December 8, 2016). Sugar was first eaten straight from sugarcane. People began to refine sugar in the year 500(Cohen, August 2013).
But fruit has fiber in the sugar. It also has less sugar by volume. For instance strawberry ice cream has fifteen grams of sugar in half a cup. Strawberries have three and a half grams of sugar in half a cup. Fruit has vitamins, antioxidants, and water to fill the rest of the volume( Dubost, June 12, 2013). Refined sugar has no nutrients, proteins healthy fats, or enzymes. Sugar actually pulls minerals from your body during digestion(Katie, December 8, 2016). Sugar in candy and desserts is nutritionally void(Dubost, June 12, 2013). The average man should have no more than nine teaspoons of added sugars per day and six teaspoons for women(Gunnars, 2012-2017). Some foods with added sugar is a medium Dairy Queen blizzard has twenty one and a half teaspoons of sugar in it. And a starbucks mocha frappucino sixteen ounces eleven and a fourth teaspoons. That is the same as a two point six ounce bag of Skittles(Sugar Stacks,