The Sugar Bowl generally pits the SEC football champion against an at-large contender.

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They are generally less sweet than sucrose (table sugar), so they are often mixed with very sweet artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame potassium, to form a palatable substitute in low sugar, low carbohydrate, and diabetic or "diet" products.

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Because Vietnamese food is generally light, with most dressings and sauces based on palm sugar and lime, Dickson often recommends a dry Riesling to accompany the delicate flavours.

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They have very high sugar levels in their urine but appear otherwise to be generally healthy.

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U.S. Dietary Guidelines, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, generally recommend that no more than 10 percent of calories come from sugar, says Keith Ayoob, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and a spokesman for the American Dietetic Association.

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Mr Vickers said in England producers were generally happy with alcohol levels of about 10% as they are allowed to add sugar to the wine to get it up to an alcohol level of 12%.

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Sugar production in Brazil has also been much better than expected, while China has generally had a good growing season, Mr Walton adds.

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