There are two types of sugars in our diets: naturally occurring sugars and added sugars. Naturally occurring sugars are found naturally in foods such as fruits (fructose) and milk (lactose). Sugars added to foods during processing, preparation or at table (putting sugar in milk, tea, coffee or breakfast cereal), sweeten food and beverage taste, improve their palatability and are used to preserve foods and to confer property such as viscosity, texture and colour.