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    Modern Marvels - Sugar

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    The document discusses the production and history of sugar. It notes that the average American consumes around 100 pounds of sugar per year, while Australians consume less. Sugar cane is a grass that grows from stalks rather than seeds, and one acre of sugar cane yields around 30 tons of stalks. Sugar production involves boiling sugar cane juice multiple times to produce raw sugar and molasses. Sugar beets are also an important source of sugar production, especially in California. The document provides various details on the history and development of the sugar industry.

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    The document discusses the production and history of sugar. It notes that the average American consumes around 100 pounds of sugar per year, while Australians consume less. Sugar cane is a grass that grows from stalks rather than seeds, and one acre of sugar cane yields around 30 tons of stalks. Sugar production involves boiling sugar cane juice multiple times to produce raw sugar and molasses. Sugar beets are also an important source of sugar production, especially in California. The document provides various details on the history and development of the sugar industry.

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    The document discusses the production and history of sugar. It notes that the average American consumes around 100 pounds of sugar per year, while Australians consume less. Sugar cane is a grass that grows from stalks rather than seeds, and one acre of sugar cane yields around 30 tons of stalks. Sugar production involves boiling sugar cane juice multiple times to produce raw sugar and molasses. Sugar beets are also an important source of sugar production, especially in California. The document provides various details on the history and development of the sugar industry.

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    Modern Marvels - Sugar

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    Jac lyn Owenby
    The document discusses the production and history of sugar. It notes that the average American consumes around 100 pounds of sugar per year, while Australians consume less. Sugar cane is a grass that grows from stalks rather than seeds, and one acre of sugar cane yields around 30 tons of stalks. Sugar production involves boiling sugar cane juice multiple times to produce raw sugar and molasses. Sugar beets are also an important source of sugar production, especially in California. The document provides various details on the history and development of the sugar industry.

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    Name ____________________

    Modern Marvels – Sugar

    1. In the United States we eat, on the average, ___________pounds of sugar in a year.

    2. In contrast, Australians eat ________pounds of sugar in a year.

    3. At least _______________________ tons of sugar are produced each year.

    4. Sugar cane is a ____________________ grass.

    5. New cane plants grow from _____________________ of an adult plant, instead of seeds.

    6. Like potatoes, the part of the stalk the new plant grows from is called an ____________.

    7. While most sugar can grows and is harvested in a year, a new hybrid in Hawaii takes _________ years
    to grow, reaching _____________ feet in height.

    8. The sugar cane is burned in the field to remove _________________________ and


    _______________________.

    9. One acre yields ________________ tons of stalks.

    10. Ten pounds of stalks yield _____ - _______ pounds of raw sugar.

    11. The HC&S Sugar Cane Company began in _____________ and produce ____________ tons of sugar
    per year.

    12. In the sugar process, how many times is the liquid mix boiled? __________

    13. Molasses, a by-product of sugar production, can be used for ______________________,


    _______________________, and _______________________________.

    14. A second source for producing sugar, what vegetable is grown in California sugar production?
    ________________________________

    15. Approximately ___________ of the global production of sugar comes from sugar beets?

    16. What is the length of the growing season for sugar beets? _________________

    17. How soon after harvest must the sugar beets be processed? __________________

    18. If the sugar beets are not processed, what will they continue to eat up? __________________

    19. Each beet weighs _______________ pounds.

    20. The Spreckles Sugar Factory processes _____________________ tons of beets, producing
    __________________ million pounds of sugar each year.

    21. The Spreckles Factory has created a process that improves the sugar yield of the molasses by
    ________________ percent.
    22. Before sugar was used as a sweetener, natural products ____________ and ____________ were
    used as everyday sweeteners.

    23. Egyptians added _________________ to sugar cane juice to help remove impurities.

    24. In the 1600’s _____________ (alcoholic drink) was discovered by accident in Barbados. This
    eventually became known as _________________.

    25. The Sugar Triangle ran between ____________, ______________, and __________________.

    26. _______________ and _______________ played an important role in the _________________


    ____________________ War.

    27. ________________ eventually left the American colonies alone so they could fight over sugar at
    home.

    28. In 1811, _______________________, ordered 40 sugar factories built in France.

    29. In 1843, a process was invented to evaporate more ________________ resulting in a drier and purer
    crystal.

    30. List five applications for sugar in the food industry

    a. b.

    b. d.

    e.

    31. To create white sugar, _______________________ is spun out of raw sugar.

    32. ____________________________ is white sugar that has been ground into fine powder.

    33. Sugar is seeing an increase of usage in the cosmetics industry in products such as
    ___________________ and ________________________.

    34. Describe the process for making rum – add ____________ to molasses and water, distill to 80 proof.

    35. The better the __________________, the better the rum.

    36. Sugar is facing pressure from __________________________________, which is made from corn
    grain.

    37. ________________ has reduced its dependence on foreign oil by using sugar to make ethanol.

    38. Brazil produces ________ percent of the world’s ethanol, which is ________ times US production.

    39. ___________________ is the shredded cane stalk that is burned in order to produce steam and
    electricity.

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