Sucrose

The sugar, also called icing sugar, table sugar, granulated sugar | sucrose is a disaccharide.

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Sucrose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of one glucose and one fructose sub-unit in each sucrose molecule. Sucrose is commonly called white sugar, table sugar, or simply sugar. Sucrose is the chemical name of the double sugar containing glucose and fructose. Sucrose is merely two common single sugars-glucose and fructose-linked together. 

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Sucrose occurs naturally in small amounts in many fruits and vegetables. It is produced naturally in plants and is mainly found in sugar cane, therefore called cane sugar. Sucrose is extracted and refined from either sugar cane or sugar beet. Food sugar is often sucrose, added to soft drinks, cookies, cakes, and other pastries. White sugar is sucrose and is more than 99% pure sucrose, and sucrose provides four kilocalories per gram but no other nutrients except calories.