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What is sugar? 'Added' sugar? 'Natural' sugar? (E47)

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Multidextrin's Are Chains of Between 3 and 17 Glucosey

Raphanose is in whole grains and beans and in vegetables particularly in brassicas. It's slightly sweet about 10% as sweet as table sugar, but it's totally indigestible in humans because we don't make the enzyme necessary to break it down. Even though it is a little sweet it plays the role of fiber in a human diet So it's not sugar. Another of these slightly more complex carbohydrates you've almost certainly heard of is multidextrin one of the most popular processed food ingredients in the worldmultidextrin does occur naturally But not inside foods as far as I know it occurs naturally inside our intestines as we break down starches. Processed food

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