Museo de Vida: Sugar Preservation

Fact Document
Questions:
1. What is sugar?

2. What is the chemical formula for glucose?

3. What aspects of the glucose molecule contribute to taste?

4. How was/is sugar used in the medical field?

5. What is a monosaccharide? Disaccharide? Polysaccharide?

6. Draw a glucose molecule.

7. What is the difference between glucose, fructose, sucrose and lactose? What are

they found in? What are their chemical formulas? What do their molecules look
like (you can either draw each one, or describe them in words)?

8. What is an isomer?

9. What does the body use glucose for? What happens to the human body f glucose

levels are off?

10. What other compounds are sweet but are unfit for human consumption? Why?

11. List the artificial sweeteners discussed in the reading. Tell me a bit about each.