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 Sugar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sugar mill construction is the missing link of the technological skills needed for the Industrial Revolution that is recognized as beginning in the first part of the 1600s.
While sugar cane could not be grown in northern Europe, sugar could be extracted from certain beets and these began to be widely cultivated around 1801, after the British control of the seas during the Napoleonic wars isolated mainland Europe from the Caribbean.
Refined sugar can be made by dissolving raw sugar and purifying it with a phosphoric acid method similar to that used for blanco directo, a carbonatation process involving calcium hydroxide and carbon dioxide, or by various filtration strategies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sugar   (4058 words)

  
 Sugar Cane Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ NaturalResearch.org
As in a sugar mill, the sugar crystals are separated from the molasses by centrifugation.
Sugarcane or Sugar cane (Saccharum) is a genus of between 6 and 37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation) of tall grasses (family Poaceae, tribe Andropogoneae), native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Old World.
Sugar cane is used as a food plant by the larvae of some lepidoptera species, including turnip moth.
www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Sugar_cane   (1867 words)

  
 SUGAR
Studies of the effects of sugar on children's behavior are as wildly contradictory as a sugar-crazed four-year-old after a birthday party, but the general consensus is that some children and adults are sugar-sensitive, meaning their behavior, attention span, and learning ability deteriorate in proportion to the amount of junk sugar they consume.
Sugar mixed with water provides more calories and put on more body fat than the same amount of table sugar taken dry by the spoonful because the quick rise in blood sugar causes an insulin burst, which makes the liver respond by turning the excess sugar into fats.
Sugars are one form of carbohydrates and carbohydrates are good for you, as long as you eat the right kinds in the right amounts.
www.askdrsears.com /html/4/T045000.asp   (6892 words)

  
 SUGAR
Since sugar cane had been introduced to Madeira and the Canaries after their colonization during the last half of the fifteenth century, the techniques of sugar production, exploitation of labor, and economic organization developed on these islands were easily exported to the new world.
Although sugar cane was reputedly first planted in Brazil in 1516, it was apparently done as much for strategic as economic reasons, because the European powers were struggling for legal and economic claims to territory in the Americas.
Consequently, the plantation system and the sugar refining industry, rather than the harvesting of spices and silk production, were destined to shape the economy and society of Brazil and the West Indies.
www.bell.lib.umn.edu /Products/sugar.html   (1274 words)

  
 Sugar Association
Sugar increases the useful life of jams and jellies by binding the water needed by mold and yeast for growth.
Sugar-and carbohydrates in general-are converted to blood glucose, the fundamental fuel needed by the brain.
Sugar improves the taste of salad dressings, tomato sauces and many other acidic foods by balancing their tartness.
www.sugar.org /consumers/15_calories.asp?id=47   (221 words)

  
 mhisttext
The other main source of sugar, sugar beet, although known as a sweet vegetable, was not used as a commercial source of sugar until the second half of the eighteenth century, when Margraf, working in Berlin, discovered a technique for extracting sugar from the beet.
Sugar is therefore unique in that it comes from two main sources - sugar-beet and sugar-cane- a fact that means it can be grown in almost every country in the world.
Napoleon, hearing of the new technique for extracting sugar from sugar beet, decided in 1811 that sugar beet was henceforth to be the source of sugar for Europe.
www.irish-sugar.ie /pages/history/histtext/mhisttx.htm   (1103 words)

  
 Sugar
Sugar also depletes the body of potassium and magnesium, which are required for proper cardiac function, and is therefore a major factor in heart disease.
Sugar consumption in the USA is so high that it has also caused a social problem through its deleterious effects on behaviour, especially in children, who are displaying increasingly severe behavioral disorders and learning disabilities.
Sugar suppresses the immune system by causing the pancreas to secrete abnormally large quantities of insulin, which is required to break it down.
www.hps-online.com /foodprof1.htm   (814 words)

  
 www.skisugar.com
Sugar Mountain Resort is the largest ski area in North Carolina and one of few resorts breaking a 1,000-foot vertical south of New England.
Sugar’s terrain park has many fun features and is serviced by a handle tow lift.
Sugar boasts a 1,200 ft vertical and offers skiers and snowboarders 20 trails and 8 lifts spread over 115 skiable acres.
www.skisugar.com   (435 words)

  
 SUGAR IS SWEET BY ANY NAME
Sugar is found in many of the foods we eat.
We expect to find sugar in foods such as cakes and cookies, but other foods such as catsup and canned vegetables are full of sugar, too.
However, sugar is known to cause tooth decay and obesity when eaten in excess.
www.dmc.org /health_info/topics/nutr3315.html   (449 words)

  
 Sugar & Artificial Sweeteners - Ask the Dietitian
There are naturally occurring sugars in fruits and dairy products and there are added sugars (white, brown or powdered sugar as well as corn syrup solids) in many processed foods.
Another significant reduction in sugar could be made by adding only 1/2 to 1/3 the amount of sugar or honey called for in a recipe.
The sugar content of these powder mixes is about the same as carbonated beverages (9 teaspoons of sugar per 12-ounce beverage).
www.dietitian.com /sugar.html   (2293 words)

  
 sugar_dangers.htm
Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.
Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, biliary tract, lung, gallbladder and stomach.
Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.
www.mercola.com /2005/may/4/sugar_dangers.htm   (2050 words)

  
 SUGAR
Sugar is a sweet, crystalline carbohydrate typically extracted from sugar cane and sugar beets.
Sugar in EVERYTHING (even soups and vegetables) makes it very hard to stop totally but what I remember most about William Duffy's comments were the similarity to cocaine use when sugar was first introduced -- the first sugar users brought it to parties and it was a great specialty.
Natural sweeteners also tend to be much less sweet than refined sugars, reducing the likelihood of a sweet-habit developing and causing less injury to the integrity of the sense of taste.
www.livrite.com /sugar1.htm   (1324 words)

  
 Sugar, Sweeteners, Food Resource [http://food.oregonstate.edu/], Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Sugar Solubility, Sucrose And Dextrose In Aqueous Glycerol.
American Society of Sugar Cane Technology is a society interested in the general study of the cane sugar industry in the United States and the dissemination of information to members of the organization through meetings and publications.
Sugar and Sugar Plants from New Crops from Purdue University.
food.oregonstate.edu /sugar   (7623 words)

  
 PSL/Sugar Homepage
The Sugar language was submitted to the Accelera EDA standards organization, who selected Sugar as the basis for an IEEE international standard and renamed it to PSL (short for Property Specification Language).
PSL is commonly referred to as PSL/Sugar, and is the winner of the 2005 DesignVision Award.
Sugar, developed by IBM, is simple, concise, and expressive.
www.haifa.il.ibm.com /projects/verification/sugar   (120 words)

  
 Aaron Lukas on Sugar & Trade on National Review Online
Most worrisome is the fact that the sugar program has become an impediment to the war on terror — a conflict in which Australia has been a steadfast ally of the United States.
The administration's retreat from free trade for sugar with Australia was reportedly prompted by the reaction of powerful U.S. growers to the increase in sugar quotas — the equivalent of about one day's production of the U.S. sugar industry — negotiated in the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
Sugar is an important export for many fragile democracies, including those in our own hemisphere.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/lukas200402121006.asp   (1497 words)

  
 Simulation Research for MEMS
SUGAR is an open source simulation tool for micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) based on nodal analysis techniques from the world of integrated circuit simulation.
SUGAR 1.0 and TA analysis by Jason V. Clark, Part 1 of BSAC seminar talk, Nov 1999.
SUGAR 2.0 examples by Jason V. Clark, Part 2 of Stanford seminar talk, Feb 2001.
www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu /cadtools/sugar/sugar   (816 words)

  
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Sugar of Santa Barbara specializes in gourmet cakes and desserts for weddings, parties and other special events.
Our edible art includes 3 dimensional sculpted cakes, unique wedding cakes, hand made sugar figures and cake toppers, masterpiece replicas (Cézanne, Monet, etc), hand painted designs and portrait cakes.
Samples of our cakes can be found in the Artwork section.
www.sugarcakes.com   (57 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: sugar
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www.technorati.com /tag/sugar   (561 words)

  
 Cookie Jar Sugar Cookies - All Recipes - Cookie
In a clean 1 liter sized glass jar with a wide mouth layer the white sugar followed by the flour mixture.
In a large bowl: beat 1 egg with 1 cup softened butter or margarine until light and fluffy.
Combine the flour with the baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg.
cookie.allrecipes.com /az/cookiejarsugarcookies.asp   (190 words)

  
 DOMINO SUGAR - We'll always be your sugar.
For over 100 years, Domino Sugar has been supplying the key ingredient that helps bakers everywhere show their families just how much they care.
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We invite you to take a closer look at the wide variety of ways to use the sweetness of Domino® Sugar in your favorite baked goods.
www.dominosugar.com   (364 words)

  
 Sugar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sugar was a highly desired product, and the islands knew exactly how to take advantage of the situation.
Sugar was commonly sold in solid cones and required a sugar nip, a plyers-like tool, to break off pieces.
Sugar cane quickly exhausts the soil and larger islands with fresher soil were pressed into production in the nineteenth century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sugar   (364 words)

  
 SugarCRM - CRM Software - SugarCRM - Open Source Customer Relationship Management(CRM) - Sugar CRM
SugarCRM joins the Free Standards Group (FSG), a not-for-profit organization that develops and promotes open source software standards, as a silver sponsor.
Check out how osCommerce allows SugarCRM users to manage osCommerce customers, orders and products through the sugar interface.
35 Sugar Professional licenses, support up to 100 users
www.sugarcrm.com   (162 words)

  
 Sugar Glider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps), sometimes called the Flying Sugar, is a small gliding possum native to eastern and northern mainland Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, and introduced to Tasmania.
The Sugar Glider is a popular pet because of its sweet, lively, inquisitive nature, but is illegal in certain jurisdictions, such as California, Georgia, Hawaii, and Alaska.
The ability to glide from tree to tree is clearly of little value with regard to the Sugar Glider's avian predators, however, in particular owls and kookaburras.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sugar_Glider   (949 words)

  
 Sugar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sugar mill construction is the missing link of the technological skills needed for the Industrial Revolution that is recognized as beginning in the first part of the 1600s.
Sugar refining was developed in the Middle East, India and China, where it became a staple of cooking and desserts.
The sugar crystals are removed by a centrifuge and the liquid recycled in the crystalliser stages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sugar   (4080 words)

  
 Sugar Ray Robinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robinson is the holder of many boxing records, including the one for the most times being a champion in a division, when he won the world Middleweight division title 5 times.
Robinson became a world champion by beating Bell by a 15 round decision.
December 3, he and Fullmer met once again, with Fullmer once again as king of the Middleweights, in another Robinson attempt to break his own record.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sugar_Ray_Robinson   (4080 words)

  
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 Blood sugar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When levels of blood sugar rise, whether as a result of glycogen conversion, or from digestion of a meal, a different hormone is released from islet cells found in the pancreas.
In medicine, blood sugar is a term used to refer to levels of glucose in the blood.
Blood sugar concentration, or serum glucose level, is tightly regulated in the human body.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blood_sugar   (448 words)

  
 Brown sugar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brown sugar can be made at home by mixing white granulated sugar with molasses, using one tablespoon of molasses for every cup of white sugar (one-sixteenth or 6.25% of the total volume).
Brown sugar is an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crystals combined with molasses.
All brown sugar produced for retail sale is made with molasses from sugar cane, because the flavor of cane molasses is palatable to humans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brown_sugar   (427 words)

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