SUGAR

History around the world and in Britain

History in Japan
some way of using sugar

Andrea Ignatkov

Sanae Okada

SWEET LIFE BEFORE SUGAR

Desire for sweet taste

Honey, dates, sweet foods sweeteners in food

12 000 years ago Araa Caves

Wild honey various usage

Bee keeping

Europe around 1100

Wildly used 16th century

SUGAR CANE (SACCHARUM OFFICINARUM)

Origins in the Pacific Ocean (10 000-15 000years ago)

Indonesia, China, India 8 000 years ago

Usage presssed the juice out from it, sucked it, boiled it

Todays sugar cane up to 6m, in tropical and subtropical clim

ate

Europe Spain, Portugal, Madeira

Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, India, the Philippines largest producers

HISTORY OF THE NEW GOLD

510 BC - Darius Persian Emperor as food sweetener

4th century BC Alexander the Great as a luxury product and medicine

7th century BC Arabs to N Africa, Rhodes, S Spain

Venice became the main importer and exporter

1492 Columbus to the West Indies

Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and then to the British, French and Dutch colonies

1747 Andreas Marggraff extracting sugar from beet,

sugar beet was suitable for the temperate climates,
but was lower in sugar content

1880 sugar beet replaced sugar cane

on continental Europe

SUGAR AND BRITAIN

Trading and transport was need

1264 Henry III

1319 more general use (50 a pound)

1655 took Jamaica and other parts of the W.I. got involved

1750 120 British refining factories

1874 the sugar tax was removed

Napoleonic wars blockade of the ocean trade

Substitute??? sugar beet

Abolition of slavery

SLAVERY ON THE
PLANTATIONS

1505- first ship

Work force

The Trade Triangle

Abolition of slavery

HISTORY OF SUGAR IN JAPAN

Black sugar came from China in 825.

At that time, sugar was so expensive more than now.

Only upper class people could get sugar.

In 8 century, We succeeded in making black sugar by ourselves in K

agoshima. The climate in kagoshima is mild and humid.
It is suitable for making sugar cane.

When the period of national isolation in Japanese history

finished in 1868, we imported white sugar from outside.

THE PERIOD OF ISOLATION IN

JAPANESE HISTORY

In 16 century, we conducted trade with only Netherland and Port

ugal. Portuguese gave us some sweet made from sugar. It fascina
ted Japanese people because it was so different Japanese sweet.

Portugal

japanese

In 1894, There was big war between China and Japan. China had T
aiwan before this war. But Japan won this war and got Taiwan from
China. Taiwan became Japans colony. Japan forced Taiwanese t
o produce a lot of sugar.
Before 1868
World war
In 1868

Japanese people began to use white sugar as food.

HOW DID THEY USE SUGAR?

They didnt use sugar as food

They use it as medicine

because
The price of sugar was not suitable for food.
Someone thought sugar was mysterious
Because sugars color is snow white and
Taste is delicate taste.

SUGAR WAS MEDICINE

In 11 century, the doctors considered sugar as a universal medic

ine.

In 12 century, the doctor who worked under the Byzantine Empir

e recommended using sugar with rose to lower a fever.

These ideas came from Islam. Thomas Aquinas eat sugar while Ra
madan because he thought sugar was medicine.

SUGAR SHOWED US STATUS

If someone used or had sugar as exclusive goods, it showed socia

l status.

At that time, wedding cake meant how much money we had.

RESOURCES:

http://www.dansukker.co.uk/uk/about-sugar/how-sugar-arrivedin-europe.aspx

http://www.sugarnutrition.org.uk/history-of-sugar.aspx

http://www.livescience.com/4949-sugar-changed-world.html

http://www.food-info.net/uk/products/sugar/history.htm

http://www.sucrose.com/lhist.html