<i>&quot;Why does this happen? Obviously, sugar tastes good. That has to be why companies add it to all sorts of things.&quot;</i><p>There are more reasons. Googling &quot;uses of sugar&quot;:<p>&quot;Although the main reason for the use of sugar is its sweet taste, sugar has many other functions in food technology. The most important among these are that added sugar in foods acts as a sweetener, preservative, texture modifier, fermentation substrate, flavouring and colouring agent, bulking agent.&quot;