Sugar
Sugar In Brief
Why do we use it?
Sugar is essential to delivering the unique taste and texture of our products. We commonly use sucrose, an ingredient which is formed of the sugars glucose and fructose. Sucrose is usually obtained from cut sugar beet and crushed sugar cane. Both plants produce a sugary liquid that is filtered and purified. The liquid is then heated to evaporate the water leaving small crystals, which become bigger and more numerous as the product is cooled. Ferrero’s sugar comes roughly three quarters from sugar beet and one quarter from sugar cane.
Products with distinctive properties may contain other sugars in varying quantities, such as dextrose, glucose syrup and glucose-fructose.
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Read about how Ferrero helps consumers reduce or limit their consumption of sugar here.
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The science of sugar: an important study (read it here) using a new methodology to show that total sugars consumption is not associated with Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular risks.

