The most prominent use of sucrose is as a food. Carbohydrate is an essential ingredient of food. Carbohydrates are ingested mainly or in the form of sugar in food.
Sucrose or sugar is used in the preparation of many substances such as sweets, jam jelly, sweet pills, toffees, syrup used in medicines. It is also an effective food preservative. It is also used in the manufacture of substances called oxalic acid and sucrose auto acetate.