Sugar is first and foremost used because of its sweetening properties. It has a clean sweet taste with no aftertaste and is the reference against which other sweeteners are compared. Beyond its sweetening properties, sugar provides structure and texture to many traditional foods, such as bakery products and jam.
For the term in algebraic geometry, see Postulation (algebraic geometry). An axiom or postulate is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments. The word comes from the Greek axÃ­Åma (á¼Î¾Î¯ÏÎ¼Î±) 'that which is thought worthy or fit' or 'that which commends itself as evident.'.
A postulate (or axiom) is a statement that acts as a starting point for a theory. Since a postulate is a starting point it cannot be proven using previous result. As a statement that cannot be proven, a postulate should be self-evident. The Elements of Euclid is built upon five postulates. For over 2000 years, the fifth postulate has been considered to be less intuitive than the other postulates, and not sufficiently self-evident.