blog — Sugar

By Gabriel Espinoza, MDIn this article:Do We Really Need Sugar?Why Is Sugar So Powerful?Sugar and Your Mental HealthHow to Spot Added Sugars4 Alternatives to SugarThere Is No Magic SubstituteTable sugar, or sucrose, derived from the sugar cane plant, is the third most-produced commodity in the world second to cereals and rice. Some historians believe that indigenous people in Papua New Guinea chewed sugar cane roots for their sweet flavor millennia ago. Throughout the ages, its cultivation spread to other cultures, including the Greeks and Romans who used it as medicinal elixirs.Sugar’s commercialization and uses to sweeten food were due to...