Ukrainian Sugar

In Ukraine, sugar is traditionally produced from sugar beets, plants whose roots have a large concentration of sucrose. Beet sugar has a high nutritional value and can maintain its initial quality for a long time. In addition to bringing sweetness, beet sugar has many other functions in foods: it helps provide taste, texture and colour, extend shelf-life, and ensure safety. Sugar provides a source of energy required by the body to function. Many types of sugars like glucose, fructose, sucrose, and lactose are found in the diet on a daily basis, and the human body does not differentiate between sugars naturally present in foods and added sugars.