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Most processed food contains sugar but that hasn't always been the case, and its history is steeped in slavery
A sweet sign of power and wealth The first sugar cane stalks were grown in New Guinea 8,000 years ago. Yet people started eating sugar more regularly when raw sugar was transformed into ...
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With ‘Papuan Global’, farmers take sugarcane on a sweet, syrupy ride
KANNUR: It was more than 8,000 years ago that the indigenous Papuan tribes of New Guinea, in the southwestern ... “Our market is flooded with refined sugar and adulterated jaggery.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Sugar But Were Too Afraid To Ask
The first sugar cane crops were grown in New Guinea in 8,000 BCE. This sugar wasn't refined, but eaten directly from the cane ...