Step 1 : Introduction to the question "9. I want to bake a cake and go to my cupboard to get some sucrose. What ingredient am I looking for?"
...1. butter 2. sugar 3. flour 4. vanilla essence "Sugar" as we know it is the generic term given to sucrose. However, "sugar" is a term that is given to a whole range of compounds of a certain general structure that display sweetness as a physical property. More complicated sugars are all based on the linking together of small sugar units such as glucose. Sucrose is a disaccharide, which means that its structure is composed of two sugar units - in this case one unit of glucose and one unit of fructose. Sucrose can be obtained from sugar cane (approx 20% by weight) or sugar beets (15% by weight).
