2nd blog

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.