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A brief history of sugar
Sugar's spread from ancient New Guinea to global staple fueled colonial economies and modern industries, with Britain’s sugar consumption rising from 4 to 90 pounds per person by 1901.
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Still Life by Edward Hartley Mooney (1918). Manchester Art Gallery, CC BYA few thousand years ago, sugar was unknown in the western world. Sugarcane, a tall grass first domesticated in New Guinea around 6000BC, was initially chewed for its sweet juice rather than crystallised. By around 500BC, methods to boil sugarcane juice into crystals was first developed in India. One of the earliest references to sugar we have dates to 510BC, when Emperor D…
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