Sugar love Plenty Plenty of Sugar Love
 Mar 1st, 2002
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Most natural product, which contains no chemicals, contains little impurities
Disadvantages:
What disadvantage?
Recommendable:
Yes
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Oh, Sugar love! Plenty Of Sugar love! Sugar is a very important part of element in our foods, we use it almost every day in coffee, teas, breakfast cereals, baking, it is used in medicines, and so the list goes on. The health factor has its uses, in the sense that it dissolves easily into the stomach, carries into the blood to the muscles where it provides energy for working and playing. It is a pure chemical and contains little impurities. As a little girl in my history class, I learnt that sugar is made up of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon. Do not ask me how this is, I wish at that time I took the bother to find out.
However, when not dissolving in the stomach, it just does not stop there; its waste matters are also useful in making variety of plastics, wood, paper and fibres.Let me explain.
Sugar comes from Sugar Cane, it is grown in Trinidad also in hot countries; it is like a giant grass, which has mainly stalk, and leaves that grows above the soil with clumps of root below which collect food and water. The shoots grow large that the leaves touch each other and this bar the sunlight, which prevents it from getting to the ground. As they grow, we had to cultivate it with hoes or mulching to get rid of weeds. Chemicals are then sprayed on the rows of the cane to kill other weeds, harmful insects and to control diseases.When they are seven months old. The cane grows tall, about ten feet tall and an inch thick, the leaves starts to die. It then has to harvest. When the harvesting takes place, I remember my grandparent saying this was hard work; as a child, it was fascinated to watch the folks at work, singing, and so industrious. As children when not at school, we would help performing minute tasks.
They would use large knives and cut the stalk at the bottom, chop off the top and trim of any leaves left on the stalk. They will bundle these and carry them to the carts using Mules. Oxen, or even or they would carry it on their backs or their heads for processing. No wonder they had straight backs and did not suffer from back pains.
If you ask me if I ever did this, yes, I did carry this on my head, but I could not do this even now!
The sugar juice is in the main stalk of the cane. There were many ways of getting the juice out the sugar, one of the most natural ways was you had to peel the outer bark and eat out of hand or cut into fine strips, and suck the juice. Mmm really, tasted lovely. You have to have good strong teeth to do this! (At a matter of interest you can buy, this is some ethnic markets or shops.) People use to think that this was not good for your health, but in Trinidad at that time, most of our foods were fresh, and naturally home grown. There was no health risk.The other way harvesting was known, was the factory at that time used machineries that had wooden rollers to squeeze the juices. This was a very complex way in which the factory was able to turn sugar cane, into molasses, beet sugar, and other raw materials. What use to happen was the cane was broken up, passed through what we use to call a ‘diffuser’, the cane is then washed with water, reuse and use again to wash more cane. That was all I could recall!What was fascinated was, they use to set fire to the cane field before another batch can grow. It was during this time, every body had to make sure their windows were closed and you did not were white, you know why? the dead dried leaves burnt away produced smoke and released dust and ash and it was black! And the SMELL! At that, time pollution was unheard of, so I would imagine it did caused pollution. It was the only way they knew how to get the ground prepared for the new crop. . It did not cause harmThere is no waste. The unwanted waste is being recycled, the pulp burns and is very useful to use as fuel in the furnaces. It heats water in the boilers, which then produces steam that drives electricity, to the rotary engine, the factory uses to function its machineries. The pulp is also used for making brown wrapping paper or white paper for letters and newspapers.Another feature of the pulp is that it is when it becomes raw; it is useful for making nylon, small particles of the pulp mixed with resin and heated in moulds to make boards, and other furnishings. My grandparent use to make compost, take it into the field, where it is rotted to provide food for the animals.Sugar cane also produces glycolic acid and is used for cosmetic purposes, especially, for the skin. What I did not fully appreciate at that time and taken for granted was when eating the cane that I could not imagine how sugar came from cane, and then it is crushed it gives juice. It purifies into juice, then the juice turned into sugar, then it separated, then you get sugar beet , then molasses, nothing is wasted , every thing about the sugar cane is used for our Health, just as nature intended.Oh, Sugar Love! Sugar Love!
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07.09.2003 13:57
Fascinating read.We're always being told how bad it is for us but as you say,it is natural!
10.07.2003 19:12
Great information to know maz76
04.06.2003 11:12
During me life in Peterborough the town used to stink from the Silver Spoon factory that used to do a lot of sugar processing. Interesting to hear about its life up until the point where I knew of it!! S :o)