In today’s society‚ sugar is just another product that is used daily but what we don’t know is the bad side of sugar. Sugar was the product that created the slave trade. It was an addiction to people and a nightmare for slaves. It caused a lot pain and killing but it also brought sweet taste in food. Sugar comes from a crop called sugar cane. Sugar can is a native crop to Polynesia and later on moved to China and India. It was widely used in India and in China sugar cane was chewed during 1000
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are many that are more common that a majority of people face whether they realize it or not‚ such as an addiction to sugar. In our current society‚ we are constantly surrounded by sugar as it is in almost all of the food we eat whether it be a small or large amount. Due to this‚ one is constantly consuming sugar and does not even realize that they are addicted to this substance. Sugar is an addictive substance because when consumed it causes one to crave more‚ makes one become dependent upon it‚ and
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Report Executive Summary In an era where there is a need for inclusive growth‚ the sugar industry is amongst the few industries that have successfully contributed to the rural economy. It has done so by commercially utilizing the rural resources to meet the large domestic demand for sugar and by generating surplus energy to meet the increasing energy needs of India. In addition to this‚ the industry has become the mainstay of the alcohol industry. The sector supports over 50 million farmers and
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affect the price of sugar. Characterized by volatile prices and widespread intervention sugar is one of the most massively traded agricultural commodities in the international and local markets (Sariannidis‚ 2010‚ p. 1). Sugar is one of the staple foods most people cannot live without. The reason I am using sugar as the subject of this paper is because I observed raw sugar has doubled its price over the past 18 months. The consumers’ demand for sugar has increased and the supply of sugar has decreased
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us and the environment. We used Nutrient Agar which is a growth medium used to culture microorganisms or small plants and Sabourand Dextrose Agar plates used to cultivate moulds and yeasts. The objective of it was to demonstrate that microbes are everywhere. We expected to find a variety of bacteria‚ moulds and yeasts. We were introduced to aseptic techniques as they help ensure that only certain microorganisms are present in the plate. These methods also guarantee that microorganisms do not escape
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What is Sugar? What is sugar? Something very tasty? Something that makes you delighted? That is true‚ but more importantly sugar is very addictive‚ awful for your teeth‚ and your whole body over all. Sugar is a very dangerous object; it can cause tooth loss‚ liver damage‚ heart attacks‚ diabetes‚ weight gain‚ and other problems with the body. The whole population on earth should start limiting the amount of sugar it consumes. II. Sugar is important for the human body and the brain. Sugar from a few
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The Effect of Health problems caused by Sugar Sophie Tacheci The Effect of Health problems caused by the amount of Sugar on the Drosophila Sugar intake has increased drastically since the 1820’s‚ causing over 78 ailments such as raised insulin levels‚ rising rates of obesity‚ heart disease and diabetes. Sugar intake per person during the 1820’s was about five pounds per year. Today the average sugar intake is about one hundred pounds per year‚ or about 119 grams
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Sugar: the silent killer Sugar can take many forms-such as white‚ raw or brown sugar‚ honey or corn syrup. It has many properties‚ both aesthetic and preservative‚ that make it highly desirable in the processed food industry. It adds taste‚ colour‚ bulk and viscosity to food products. It also prevents mould formation and microbiological activity. According to the 1995 Nutrition Survey‚ Australians were obtaining about 45 per cent of their energy intake from carbohydrates of which 20 per cent
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Introduction Sugar appears to currently hold the top position on the blacklist of all unhealthy foods‚ and although it cannot be denied that it can lead to a variety of maladies‚ can this simple‚ pure‚ sweet substance really be deserving of the massive trend of fierce demonization it has undergone over the past few years? 1. The demonization of sugar – sugar and spice and everything not so nice Despite the fact that sugar plays a central role in our lives today‚ it appears that its presence is unwanted
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Sugar has become such a naturally common thing in our day to day lives‚ more specifically cane sugar. It’s used in our day to day lives‚ from our coffee’s and Kool Aid’s. To our cereals and pastries‚ but how did this sweet substance get into our pantries? The reason this substance got into our everyday homes is because of the sugar trade. What is the sugar trade? The sugar trade was the global trading of sugars from the West Indies to Britain‚ France and Brazil. Now the real question we should have
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