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When canec, Hawaii’s building material, is damaged, it can release toxic dust like asbestos – requiring special cleanup
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Gimme some sugar: a diabetic on love, loss and longing for pound cake
To survive a deadly cancer, author Ida Harris had to give up her sweet tooth. It’s been an identity-shaking adjustment
2 July 2024
‘It’s the future of sugar’: new technology feeds Vermont maple syrup boom amid climate crisis
The season to tap trees is now earlier and longer, but new processes and generations are helping the industry thrive
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White gold, Black bodies: how a tiny African nation shaped the world
The first archaeological dig of São Tomé and Príncipe’s largest sugar mill sheds light on the birth of plantation agriculture and slavery as a racial system
12 June 2024
Is aspartame bad for you? What we know about the sweetener’s health risks
Some studies link the popular soda sweetener to higher cancer risk, but the links are weak and questions remain
5 June 2024
Your brain sees sugar as a reward. But does that mean it’s addictive?
Most scientists say no, but some want ultra-processed foods, with sky-high sugar amounts, to count as addictive substances
9 May 2024
‘Sugar is brown!’: there’s more to the sweet stuff than its pure white version
Sugar’s texture and taste can be as individualistic as coffee beans or wine grapes grown in specific regions, but most of us don’t know that
30 April 2024
Megadrought forces end to sugarcane farming in parched Texas borderland
The state’s last sugar processing mill closed because there’s just not enough water in the Rio Grande to share between the US and Mexico
24 April 2024
Hawaiian scientist’s quest to find and save the state’s distinctive sugarcanes
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