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• Sugar cane is a member of the grass family and there are six different species, all of which look very similar to bamboo. None of the species can tolerate freezing temperatures. Sugar cane is usually grown in large plantations. It can yield up to 44 pounds of sugar for every 11 square feet of land. • It takes between 12 and 18 months for a cane stalk to mature to the point where it can be harvested. It is a perennial plant meaning it can regrow from the roots over and over, but each time it yields less sugary sap than before until it becomes more economical to plant a fresh new crop. The stalk of the plant is boiled and refined into molasses and sugar. The sugar cane must be refined within days of being harvested. • It takes one ton of water to grow enough cane to yield one pound of sugar. • Sugar cane was first domesticated in New Guinea and areas of Indonesia, and people in India were the first to refine it. One of the first recorded references to sugar dates back to the year 325 BC. • Christopher Columbus brought sugar cane with him on his second voyage to the New World in 1493 and planted it in Santo Domingo. By the year 1516, sugar was being shipped to Europe from there. • The first sugar cane in the United States was planted in Louisiana in the mid1700s. • At first, sugar was rare and expensive. Slavery on sugar plantations caused social upheaval. Jungles were torn down to make room for more sugar cane. • As sugar became more widely available, the price dropped so that more people could afford it. • Brazil is currently the world’s largest producer of sugar. Cont'd next page!
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• Sugar is a combination of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Mankind is unable to produce sugar using chemical processes. Only plants can manufacture sugar. Our table sugar comes from two different plants: sugar cane, and sugar beets. They are chemically identical. • It used to be thought that sugar could only be made from sugar cane. One scientist named Achard was viewed as a crackpot because he kept trying to get sugar from beets, which were easy to grow in cold climates. In 1806 Napoleon ordered all French ports closed to English products because a war had broken out between the two countries. This cut off the supply of sugar, which England got from its Caribbean colonies. When Napoleon heard of a man that could turn beets into sugar, he visited him and was so impressed that he took the Legion of Honor medal from his own chest and pinned it on him. Two years later there were 40 sugar beet factories in France. When the war ended, the price of sugar bottomed out and the beet factories closed. Today, two-thirds of the world’s sugar comes from sugar cane, and one-third from beets. • Children develop a taste for salty things by the time they are four or five years old, but the appreciation of sweet things is present from the moment of birth. In an experiment, babies had one of their hands placed in a bowl of uncomfortably cold water. Researchers found that babies would leave their hand in that cold water longer if they were distracted by being given something sweet.
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