Functional properties of sugar

Besides sweetening, sugar has many functional uses in food.
 

Without sugar, jam would soon go off, ice cream would crystallise, and bread would lose its freshness and dry out. In addition, the taste of foods would be disappointing without sugar's ability to round off and enhance natural taste components. Sugar has one or more unique, quality enhancing properties to offer almost all types of food production involving both solid and liquid foods.

All these functional properties are not always well-known and are sometimes even forgotten, despite sugar's importat role in different applications. Here you can read more about sugar's various functional properties.