Sugar, 100% pure and natural, only 15 calories per teaspoon. Why would anyone use something artificial?
Fun Sugar Trivia
- Sugar possesses antibiotic properties and can be used to heal wounds
- Sugar is used in leather tanning, printers' inks and dyes and even in textile sizing and finishing
- Sugar is the only taste humans are born craving
- A spoonful of sugar added to a vase will prolong the life of feshly cut flowers
- Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
- 3 or 4 cubes of sugar in a suitcase before storing it will help prevent damp odors
- Chemical manufacturers use sugar to grow penicillin
- Sugar hardens asphalt. It slows the setting of ready-mixed concrete and glue
- A grain of sugar under the microscope is a translucent crystal, reflecting light from its 14 facets like a jewel
- During World War II only 4oz sugar was allowed to be bought per person per week as part of the rations
- Film stuntmen use bottles and plate glass windows made of sugar
- A pinch of sugar on the tonque is a traditional remedy for hiccups
- Our great grandmothers used sugar to starch their petticoats
- A teaspoon of sugar after a hot curry will extinguish the furnace in your mouth
