Fascinating Facts - Sugar
- Sugar is one of three kinds of carbohydrate: starch, fiber and sugar.
- Sugar has no fat and is 100% natural.
- You can put sugar water in a humming bird feeder to attract birds.
- Some plants can make their own sugar— when a banana ripens, it changes starch into sugar, making it sweeter.
- Sugar helps bread or doughnuts rise when they’re baked.
- Sugar cane stalks can reach 30 feet high!
- Brown cane sugar is naturally brown through and through.
- Sugar is an important source of carbohydrate—the body’s main energy supply.
- Sugar comes from two sources: sugar cane (grass) that grows in stalks in sugar cane fields and beets (root) that grow underground.
- Sugar gives you short term energy.
- The Energy you get from sugar, you lose it very quickly. So basically it is like a short burst of energy.