sucrose
Sucrose is sugar's chemistry-class name — same molecule, same jobs, same deduction when it teams up with a second sweetener.
What it is
The disaccharide that table sugar IS: glucose bonded to fructose. Labels that print 'sucrose' rather than 'sugar' are being precise, not different.
Why it's in pet food
Palatability and treat texture, identical to sugar. Occasionally used in prescription-diet contexts for exact formulation control, which is the one setting where its presence has a stated reason.
How Bowlmark scores it
Scores are deterministic math over the printed label — the rules below apply to every product identically, and nothing estimates or fills in a blank.
A sugars-list term for the ≥2-distinct rule (−8). Note the flag asymmetry honestly: the top-10 added-sugar flag names 'sugar', 'corn syrup', and 'cane molasses' specifically — a label printing 'sucrose' high matches the deduction list but not the flag's names. The engine counts what advisors listed; the pages keep saying so.
Foods that list sucrose
No food on the shelf lists sucrose yet. Scan a bag that does and its label joins the catalog — versioned from the day it arrives.
Sources
Related ingredients
Further reading
Cite this page
Bowlmark. "Sucrose in pet food — what it is and how it scores." https://www.bowlmark.com/ingredient/sucrose
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