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Sucrose is the principal carbohydrate in cane, beet, sweetener and drinking juice. It has many functional roles in foods preparation. It is used as a preservative, for flavor and for texture. It is an important source for supplying pure energy. However, a high-sucrose diet can increase the appetite, resulting in many detrimental effects upon metabolism of the body health. This chapter focuses on the sucrose effects that include its effect on body weight, lipid profile and blood glucose levels. This chapter also deals with the role of a high sucrose diet on antioxidant/oxidative stress in different tissues such as renal and cardiac tissue and emphasize in the significance of HSD in vitamin E and vascular antioxidant ability. |
