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Originally Posted by Ramrod
At least it's been tested on us for a few thousand years.
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Actually, has it been around for thousands of years? Chemically, sugar is a generic term for an extremely large group of carbohydrates. What we commonly call sugar is sucrose which consists of a combination of a glucose and a fructose molecule. As far as I can remember, sucrose has only been readily available for a few hundred years. Large scale production only began with the slave-powered West Indian estates in the late seventeenth/eighteenth century. If I remember correctly, most sugar in fruits is fructose (hence its name).