3. Non-food uses of sugars
Some sectors use sugar for obvious reasons, others for unexpected ones :
Pharmaceutical industry: sucrose is used as a neutral, inexpensive excipient in cough tablets, capsules and syrups, as a coating agent for tablets, and to make homeopathic granules;
cosmetics industry: recent research has demonstrated the value of simple sugars in activating cellular communication and delaying skin ageing. Older research, based on glycobiology, has highlighted the role of glycans, carbohydrate polymers sometimes linked to proteins (glycoproteins and peptoglucans)....
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The French sugar industry employed 45,000 people in 2013, including 26,000 beet growers and 10,000 cane growers. Some 5 million tonnes of beet sucrose and 260,000 tonnes of cane sucrose are produced each year in mainland France and the French overseas territories. France ranks 1 er among European sugar and ethanol producers, and 7th worldwide. It is also...
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