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1 teaspoon of sugar has 16 calories.  There is no healthy sugar.  Here are the top ten foods with the most sugar #10 ice cream, frozen yogurt and milk shakes up to 25% of sugar #9 sauces and instant gravies up to 33% of sugar #8 canned fruit up to 52% of sugar #7 cereals up to 56% of sugar #6 jams, preservers and spreads up to 60% of sugar #5 cakes, cookies and pies up to 71% of sugar #4 dried fruit up to 81% of sugar #3 candies up to 93% of sugar #2 drink powders and soft drinks up to 95% of sugar #1 sugar, syrups and sweeteners up to 100% of sugar.  Sugars are a form of carbohydrate found in a variety of foods, including fruits and vegetables.  Since the dawn of agriculture and the industrial age consumption of sugar has increased rapidly, leading to an epidemic of obesity and other illnesses.  All the sugar the body needs can be found in whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes.  There is no need to consume refined sugars.  Like carbohydrates, excessive consumption of of sugars can lead to diabetes, and cancer.  Foods that don't contain sugar eggs, fish, meats, fats, and oils.  Fruit is made up of water, sugar, fiber, vitamins and minerals and more.  The sugar in fruit is called fructose, not to be with high fructose corn syrup.  Fructose is sugar in its natural form plant sources.  Fructose is much different than table sugar which is also known as sucrose.  Fructose works much differently in your body than table sugar does.  When you eat a piece of fruit, your body takes time to start breaking it down because it takes time to break fruit down, your body does not release insulin when your eating fructose.

3rd blog how we get sugar

After washing sugar beets are sliced and soaked in hot water to begin the process that separates sugar from the rest of the plant.  The hot sugary liquid is filtered, concentrated to a deep brown syrup, whose colour is due to its high molasses content.  A large perforated basket spinning very rapidly much like a washing machine in a spin cycle where most of the molasses is spun away.  At the end, hot water is sprayed over the light brown crystals to remove the remaining molasses, leaving pure naturally white sugar crystals.  The sugar crystals are then dried.  It is important to note that beet sugar is neither chemically altered nor bleached to achieve its naturally white sugar.  Cane stalks are shredded and squeezed to extract it natural juice, which is boiled until it thickens and and molasses begin to settle.  The molasses are sent to a rapidly spinning centrifuge to remove molasses and leave pure naturally white sugar crystals.  The sugar crystals are then dried.  It is important to note that cane sugar is neither chemically altered nor bleached to achieve its naturally white colour.  Sugar is a carbohydrate.  The body's primary source of energy is from carbohydrates.  All vital organs brain, heart, liver need carbohydrates to meet their energy demands.  Carbohydrates including sugar also play key roles in muscle function, growth and regulation of body temperature.

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Various sugars in Australia come from sugar cane grass which is milled and refined to extract the sugar.  Sugar cane is crushed in the mill and the resulting juice is purified and then boiled to produce a thick syrup.  From this syrup, raw sugar crystals are extracted, usually leaving a dark sticky liquid behind called molasses.  If you've ever been to a fresh food market, you can watch a vendor feeding lengths of cut cane between two rotating drums that press and squeeze out the natural sweet juice.  With a few ice cubes, this makes a sweet pleasant juice on hot days.  there are 8 types of sugar, glucose powder which is 97% sugar, white sugar which is 100% sugar, caster sugar which is 100% sugar, icing sugar which is 100% sugar, raw sugar which is 99% sugar, demerara sugar which is 99% sugar, coffee crystals which is 99% sugar, brown dark sugar which is 96% sugar, fructose powder which is 100% sugar.  100 years ago people ate less than two pounds of sugar each year.  Now each person each person eats 70 pounds of sugar each year.

My First Blog

My genius hour topic is sugar.  There is 387 calories in 100 grams of sugar.  There is 0 grams of fat, cholesterol, and dietary fiber.  there is 1 mg of sodium in 100 grams of sugar.  There is 2 mg of potassium in 100 grams of sugar.  there is 100 grams of carbohydrates in 100 grams of sugar. In 100 grams of brown sugar there is 97.33 g of carbohydrates, 96.21 g of sugar, 0.008 mg of thiamine, 0.082 mg of niacin, 0.026 mg of vitamin B6, 85 mg of calcium, 1.91 mg of iron, 29 mg of magnesium, 22 mg of phosphorus, 133 mg of potassium, 39 mg of sodium, 0.18 mg of zinc, 1.77 g of water, 1 micro gram of folate.  The world produced 168 million tonnes of sugar in 2011.  In 2012 Brazil uses the most sugar then India, European Union, China, Thailand.  In 2013 India consumes sugar the most then European Union, China, Brazil.  The average person consumes 26 teaspoons a day which is 40 kilos in a year-20 bags of sugar.