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Sucromalt
Sucromalt (Xtend™) is a nutritive sweetener made from sucrose and maltose with alternansucrase enzyme, developed by USDA-ARS and Cargill; glycemic index 53, 4.0 kcal/g, 70% as sweet as sugar, GRAS as GRN 258.
Sucrose
Sucrose, also known as cane sugar, is ordinary table sugar, a nonreducing disaccharide of glucose and fructose crystallized from sugarcane and sugar beet juice and hydrolyzed into invert sugar.
Sucrose acetate isobutyrate
Sucrose acetate isobutyrate (SAIB, E 444, CAS 126-13-6), a mixture of fully esterified sucrose esters, is a density-adjusting agent stabilizing citrus flavor-oil emulsions in soft drinks at 150-300 ppm, with an ADI of 20 mg/kg bw per day.
Sucrose esters of fatty acids
Sucrose esters of fatty acids (SFAE, sugar esters, E 473) are nonionic biodegradable surfactants from sucrose and fatty acids, used as food emulsifiers since the 1950s and in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
Sucrose phosphorylase
Sucrose phosphorylase, also called sucrose glucosyltransferase, is a bacterial enzyme that reversibly splits sucrose into fructose and glucose 1-phosphate, and is used industrially to make glycosides.
Suction
Suction in medicine removes secretions, gas, or fluid from hollow organs and cavities using a tube and negative pressure, for airway clearance, drainage, and wound therapy.
Suction cup
A suction cup is a flexible, cup-shaped element that grips a surface by atmospheric pressure when the air inside is removed, powering industrial vacuum lifters and everyday holders.
Suction grasping
Suction grasping is a robotic grasping method in which a suction cup seals against an object and holds it by pressure difference, widely used in warehouse picking.
Sud america
Sud América (Institución Atlética Sud América, IASA) is a Uruguayan football club founded 15 February 1914 in Montevideo's Villa Muñoz; orange shirts, nicknames Los Naranjas and Los Buzones, 7 Segunda División titles, 1995 Copa Conmebol participant. Distinguished from Argentine clubs of the same name.
Sud Aviation Caravelle
The Sud Aviation Caravelle, also known as the Super Caravelle, was a French twin-engine jet airliner, first flown in 1955 with rear-mounted engines, serving airlines like Air France and SAS.
Sud-Bandama
Sud-Bandama, former region of Côte d'Ivoire with capital Divo, one of 19 first-level regions until the 28 September 2011 reorganization into 14 districts; departments Divo, Lakota, Guitry; territory now mainly Lôh-Djiboua region; cocoa and palm producing.
Sud-Comoé
Sud-Comoé is a region of Côte d'Ivoire in the country's southeast, bordering Ghana and the Atlantic Ocean, with its capital at Aboisso and a 2021 population of about 785,000.
Sud-Est
Sud-Est (Sidès) is a department of Haiti created in 1971, capital Jacmel, population 749,803 on 2,034.10 km²; mountainous, rural, famed for Jacmel's carnival, crafts, and UNESCO Creative City status.
Sud-Ouest Region
Sud-Ouest Region (South West Region) names first-level regions in Cameroon (capital Buea, anglophone, 24,571 km²) and Burkina Faso (capital Gaoua, 16,576 km²); a former Ivorian Sud-Ouest region is now Bas-Sassandra.
Suda
The Suda (Σοῦδα), also transmitted as Suida, is a Byzantine Greek lexicon and encyclopedia of about 30,000 entries, compiled in Constantinople in the late tenth century.
Sudafed
Sudafed is a Kenvue brand of decongestants whose original products contain pseudoephedrine, sold behind US pharmacy counters under the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005; Sudafed PE contains phenylephrine, judged ineffective orally by FDA advisers in 2023.
Sudairi Seven
The Sudairi Seven are the seven full sons of Saudi founder King Abdulaziz and Hassa bint Ahmad al-Sudairi: Fahd, Sultan, Nayef, Abdulrahman, Turki, Salman, and Ahmad, the dominant princely faction supplying kings Fahd and Salman.
Sudama (सुदामा)
Sudama, known in South India as Kuchela, is the poor Brahmin friend of Krishna whose visit to Krishna's capital Dvaraka, told in the Bhagavata Purana, ends in wealth.
Sudama Charit
Sudama Charit (सुदामा-चरित) is a 16th-century Braj-language narrative poem by the Hindi poet Narottama Dasa, retelling the impoverished Brahmin Sudama's visit to Krishna at Dwarka.
Sudama Prasad
Sudama Prasad is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, elected to the Lok Sabha from Arrah, Bihar, in 2024, the party's first MP in 35 years.
Sūdan
Sūdan (सूदन) was a court poet of Maharaja Suraj Mal of Bharatpur who wrote the Sujan Charit, a heroic verse chronicle of wars from 1745 to 1753.
Sudan (rhinoceros)
Sudan (1973–2018) was the last male northern white rhinoceros, born in Sudan, kept at Dvůr Králové Zoo then Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, sire of Najin and Fatu, euthanized 19 March 2018 at 45.
Sudan (السودان)
Sudan (السودان), Northeast African country with capital Khartoum, third-largest in Africa at 1,886,068 km². Independent 1956; South Sudan seceded 2011; since April 2023 the SAF–RSF war has caused the world's largest humanitarian crisis, famine risk, and mass displacement.
Sudan Gurung (सुदन गुरुङ)
Sudan Gurung (सुदन गुरुङ, also सुधन गुरुङ), born 1987, is Nepal's Home Minister under PM Balendra Shah, a Rastriya Swatantra Party MP from Gorkha-1, Hami Nepal founder and Gen Z movement figure who resigned in April 2026 and returned in June 2026.
Sudan I
Sudan I, also called Solvent Yellow 14, is a synthetic orange-red azo dye used to color plastics, textiles, and waxes, and banned as a food colorant.
Sudan IV
Sudan IV, also known as Solvent Red 24 or Scarlet red, is a fat-soluble disazo dye used chiefly as a histological stain for triglycerides in frozen tissue sections.
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), also SPLM/A-IO: South Sudanese political movement and former rebellion led by Riek Machar, split from the SPLM in December 2013, signatory of the 2018 R-ARCSS, in crisis after Machar's 2025 arrest.
Sudan virus disease
Sudan virus disease (SVD), also called Sudan ebolavirus disease, is a severe hemorrhagic fever caused by Orthoebolavirus sudanense, first identified in Sudan in 1976, with repeated Uganda outbreaks, 41-70% case fatality, and no licensed vaccine or treatment.
Sudan–Uganda relations
Sudan–Uganda relations are the bilateral ties between Sudan and Uganda, which armed each other's rebels from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s before restoring diplomacy and cooperating against the LRA.
Sudanese Arabic
Sudanese Arabic (العربية السودانية) is the Arabic dialect group of Sudan, about 41 million first-language speakers, closest to Egyptian Arabic, with regional varieties (Shaigiya, Baggara, Darfur) and the creole Juba Arabic.