Companies are keeping a close watch on what may be the next wave in packaging: bioplastics and bioresins, material made from corn and sugar substances that are renewable resources.
This process reduces the amount of water in the grapes, concentrating the sugar content, aromas, and other substances.
The city would bar the use of food stamps to buy beverages that contain more sugar than substance -- that is, beverages with low nutritional value that contain more than 10 calories per eight-ounce serving.
The problem is exacerbated by harsh pre-treatment, which introduces sugars and substances inhibitory to yeast metabolism.
Its deleterious effects are attributable, among other things, to the formation of sugar-derived substances called advanced glycation end products (AGEs).
Blamed for hyperactivity in children and studied as an addictive substance, sugar has had its share of image problems.
One success story is a method developed by DuPont, with Genencor, to ferment corn sugar into a substance called propanediol.
/ having the taste of sugar or a substance resembling sugar; surfer-speak for something that's, like, totally awesome; a word that has demurely entered the style lexicon as a more considered nod than the all-purpose "fabulous".
And sugar is a substance that's relentlessly rammed down our throats and cunningly included in foods where it doesn't belong, a fact that threatens nearly everyone in the United States.
According to a Department of Defense website, some animal studies have suggested that aegeline might lower blood sugar, but the substance has never been studied in humans.
