[Position of sugar in nutrition]

Carbohydrates are an indispensible component in the nutrition of humans, because certain tissues depend on glucose. Together with the carbohydrate-containing foodstuffs also essential nutrient and dietary fiber should be added, since, besides a general overconsumption in the FRG, risk groups such as pregnant women and elderly people can suffer from a biochemical measurable deficiency of certain vitamins and trace elements. Only in its processed form in several foodstuffs sugar promotes the supply of essential nutrients. These foodstuffs must be judged by their nutrient density, in which the level of dietary fiber is mostly too low.