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.