SC - Some interesting sugar facts...

[micaylah]

Canadian Sugar Institute
http://www.sugar.ca/

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Sugar is involved in the fermentation process to make products
containing alcohol (such as wine)
Sugar slows the setting of cement and glues
Sugar is used in leather tanning
Sugar is an ingredient in printers' inks
Sugar is used in the textile industry for sizing and finishing fabrics
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Per capita sugar consumption in Canada has not increased since the early
1940's, so the Canadian sugar industry relies on Canadian population
growth for an expanded market. While Canadian sugar companies have
actively pursued export markets, success has been limited because of
foreign trade barriers.
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In most other countries, government intervention supports sugar prices
at artificially high levels and imports are restricted. While these
policies protect the domestic sugar producers in these countries, they
also result in higher prices for the consumer and sugar-containing
product manufacturers. In the U. S. , Europe and Japan, for example,
sugar prices are as much as two to three times higher than in Canada.
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When people are looking for an estimate of sugar intake, they may
mistakenly quote statistics called "per capita disappearance" or "sugar
available for consumption" (reported as kilograms of sugar per person
per year). This "disappearance" data is a measure of the amount of sugar
produced in Canada plus imports minus exports, divided by the population
of Canada. This number does not tell us how much sugar Canadians are
actually eating. It overestimates actual intake because it includes
sugar that is wasted or used up in the process of making foods (like
bread or wine), and non-food uses of sugar (in pet foods, fabrics,
cement, etc.).
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I suspect the last paragraph applies to Americans as well.

Micaylah