SHEET /m/sucrose · PubChem CID 5988 · CAS 57-50-1 · REV 2026.07
Sucrose
from sourceC12H22O11 · 342.3 g/mol
saccharose · Amerfand · Cane sugar · Confectioner's sugar
What is Sucrose?
Table sugar: one glucose joined to one fructose. It is the reference point the whole sweetness scale is measured against, at exactly 1 times sweet. Found in tabletop sweetener, table sugar, fruit, honey, chocolate, breakfast cereal, soft drinks, tonic water, citrus, and whipped cream. from source
Fig. 1 · 2D structure RDKit
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Curated by MoleculeFinder from source
The dose makes the poison inferred
A reported rat oral LD50 for Sucrose is 29,700 mg/kg, the dose lethal to half the animals tested. Scaled by body mass alone:
“The dose makes the poison” is a cross-species estimate shown as neutral science, not a threshold anyone should act on. Real toxicity depends on the person, not body mass alone.
Signature properties
Toxicity & hazards
Toxicity · LD50
29,700 mg/kg · very low toxicity · LD50 rat oral from source
The dose lens above scales this to a body weight.
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Where Sucrose leads
Compare with
Sucrose, ordinary table sugar, is the yardstick every other sweetener is measured against. By definition it sits at 1x on the sweetness scale; a sweetener rated "200x" simply tastes as sweet at one two-hundredth the amount.