The Caribbean is now a minor source of cane sugar, its role having been assumed by India and Brazil. Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, and Texas also produce sugar cane. Spurred by the demand of an increasingly populous and affluent West, world sugar production increased sevenfold between 1900 and 1964, a rate matched by no other major crop in history. And thanks to the development
of methods for making sweeteners from corn, an even less expensive source, sugar has never been cheaper or more abundant
in our diet. This is not necessarily good for our long-term health (p. 657), and one of the major developments in 20th-century food manufacturing has been the development
of ingredients that mimic the flavor and physical characteristics of sugar without
having adverse effects on body weight and the regulation of blood sugar (p. 659).
The Caribbean is now a minor source of cane sugar, its role having been assumed by India and Brazil. Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, and Texas also produce sugar cane. Spurred by the demand of an increasingly populous and affluent West, world sugar production increased sevenfold between 1900 and 1964, a rate matched by no other major crop in history. And thanks to the developmentof methods for making sweeteners from corn, an even less expensive source, sugar has never been cheaper or more abundantin our diet. This is not necessarily good for our long-term health (p. 657), and one of the major developments in 20th-century food manufacturing has been the developmentof ingredients that mimic the flavor and physical characteristics of sugar withouthaving adverse effects on body weight and the regulation of blood sugar (p. 659).
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