Sugar Coated Almond

Sugar Coated

Sugar Coated is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Michèle Hozer and released in 2015. The film explores the impact on human health of the heavy use of sugar in the contemporary diet.

Sugar

Sugar is a class of sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double sugars, are molecules made of two bonded monosaccharides; common examples are sucrose, lactose and maltose. White sugar is almost pure sucrose. During digestion, compound sugars are hydrolysed into simple sugars.

Coating

A coating is a covering that is applied to the surface of an object, or substrate. The purpose of applying the coating may be decorative, functional, or both. Coatings may be applied as liquids, gases or solids, e.g., powder coatings.

Almond

The almond is a species of tree from the genus Prunus. Along with the peach, it is classified in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by corrugations on the woody shell (endocarp) surrounding the seed.

sugar

Noun

1. A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.
2. Any specific variety of sugar.

Verb

1. To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
2. To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

coated

Verb

1. simple past and past participle of coat

Adjective

1. Covered with a thin layer.
2. Wearing a coat.

almond

Noun

1. The seed within the drupe of a small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus amygdalus, considered a culinary nut.
2. The tree that produces almonds.

Adjective

1. Brownish, resembling the colour of an almond nut.