- Refined white sugar (acid and fat on a spoon) replaced
molasses as the leading sweetener in the American diet.
I decided to do more research because I remember my mother cooking Molasses cookies when I was little and trying to avoid white sugar completely so I would grow up healthier than other kids. My parents also believe that vaccinations weren't necessary too then in the 1950s so my first shot was fro Tetanus at age 15 when I was bit by a dog by law after the dog was found not to have rabies.
I recently bought a bottle of Molasses at the store (you can still buy it) which is usually cane sugar syrup before it gets refined down into white or brown sugar. I think in this form of molasses it was shipped from the West Indies to the 13 Colonies, England and Europe and around the world so people could have sugar for things like tea, coffee, chocolate (also from South America) etc.
Here is what Wikipedia says about Molasses:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molasses CachedMolasses (American vernacular), or black treacle (British, for human consumption; known as molasses otherwise), is a viscous by-product of the refining of ...
- www.wisegeek.org/what-is-molasses.htm CachedMolasses is a thick, dark substance made from cane or beet sugar. A popular sweetener, molasses was once eaten with sulfur to...
- However, what is much worse than white sugar is high fructose Corn Syrup. One should try to avoid high fructose corn syrup in anything you drink or eat because it is a major contributor to obesity in this country and around the world even more than white sugar.I would say that it is safer eating molasses or honey as a sugar substitute and best of all would be the fructose from fruit but if you are sugar sensitive (it affects your behavior or makes you pass out) likely you should avoid all sugars and visit your doctor.
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