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Saccharify (Verb)

Sweeten with sugar; "sugar your tea".

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.

To saccharify the bitter coffee, she added a spoonful of sugar and stirred well.
She asked her mother to saccharify the stew with honey as it tasted too bland without any sweetness.
You can saccharify your cappuccino with that packet of sugar on the counter if you want.
Her grandmother likes to saccharify her tea with a bit of sugar and lemon to balance out the flavors.
The chef decided to saccharify the savory sauce with caramelized sugar before serving the main course.

Convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate.

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Enzymes work to saccharify the starches in the grain to create a fermentable sugar that yeast can use for brewing.
The aim of gelatinization and liquefaction is to saccharify the starches in the feedstock and make them more accessible for further processing.
Microorganisms can saccharify cellulose in biomass by hydrolyzing it into fermentable sugars that can then be converted into biofuels.
A key step in the production of malt whiskey is to saccharify the starches in the malted barley to create fermentable sugars that can be converted into alcohol.
The process of saccharifying sugarcane bagasse can produce a mixture of simple sugars that can then be fermented into various chemicals and fuels.