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- Sugar was first produced from sugarcane plants in India sometime after the first century AD. The derivation of the word "sugar" is thought to be from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā), meaning "ground or candied sugar," originally "grit, gravel".
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The history of sugar has five main phases: The extraction of sugar cane juice from the sugarcane plant, and the subsequent domestication of the plant in tropical India and Southeast Asia sometime around 4,000 BC.
Oct 31, 2023 · In late 19th-century Europe, farmers switched from wheat to beets to create beet sugar, resulting in beet sugar making up 50% of all internationally traded sugar by 1900.
Once there, settlers realised the potential to cultivate sugar cane in the better climatic conditions of the New World. Spanish colonisers joined suit and grew sugar cane across the Caribbean. By the 16th century, sugar cane had made it to Madeira, an Atlantic Island colonised by Portugal.
~1390 CE. Advanced sugar presses were developed, doubling the amount of juice that was obtained from the sugar cane. 11 1455 – 1480 CE. Sugar was cultivated for large-scale refinement for the first time in Madeira; by the end of this period, about 70 ships were involved in the Madeira sugar trade, and refining and distribution were based in Antwerp. 12,13
Jan 9, 2017 · In 1493, Columbus brings sugar cane from the Canary Islands to Hispañola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic). By 1516, Hispañiola is the most important sugar producer in the New World.
Oct 30, 2015 · The first chemically refined sugar appeared on the scene in India about 2,500 years ago. From there, the technique spread east towards China, and west towards Persia and the early Islamic...
Jul 26, 2023 · Sugar, a sweet substance derived from various plants, has a rich and complex history that spans thousands of years and has influenced multiple cultures worldwide. The journey of sugar began in prehistory, with records indicating the domestication of sugar cane around 8000 BCE.
