history of sugar

SUGAR HISTORY

Producing sugar from sugarcane is an Indian invention. since Vedic times, Indians are producing sugar. In Sanskrit sugar is called "Syakarab", in Arabic it is known as "shaker", in Latin it is called "sacrum" in German it is called "Zucker" in French it is "Sucre" in English it had become as sugar. Thus India's Syakarah had finally become sugar (this is because overworld was ruled by England thus it named as sugar)

Greeks had first come to know from Indians the usage of sugar. Greek chronicles during Alexander's interaction with India, had described sugarcane as a crop that produces honey without honeybees. Till the advent of the 13th century, sugar was a luxurious item in Europe and was heavily imported from India.chinese also had learned how to produce sugar from sugarcane crop of Indians 

          Pourgeuse, Spanish and Italian merchants have introduced sugarcane crops in their countries ( Africa, South America, and West Indies, after learning from India.

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