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Tall, dense stalks of sugarcane grow on both sides of a narrow path, with green leaves arching overhead and sunlight illuminating the plants.
Astronaut holding a rainbow lollipop against a starfield, with arrows toward text reading: Sugar in Space?
Labeled illustration comparing the structure of a sugarcane stalk on the left, showing buds and internodes, with a sugar beet on the right, highlighting leaves, crown, hypocotyl, and taproot. bagasse blackstrap molasses Field of tall green sugarcane plants growing in Guadeloupe, with a palm tree on the left and a bright blue sky with scattered clouds above.
The truth about high-fructose corn syrup and sugar
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Tall, dense stalks of sugarcane grow on both sides of a narrow path, with green leaves arching overhead and sunlight illuminating the plants.
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How Did We Find Sugar in Space?
It's the same sugar found in strawberries and raspberries on Earth.
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The truth about high-fructose corn syrup and sugar
Explaining the chemical differences between high-fructose corn syrup and sugar.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
The chemistry of making cotton candy
Learn how the heating elements of the cotton candy machine act upon the granulated...
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How different solutions conduct electricity
Conducting electric current in a solution of electrolytes.
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Uncover the science of why some foods taste sweet
Learn why some foods taste sweet.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
The science of making candy
See a lemon drop candy-making demonstration from a scientific perspective.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
How to make elderberry jelly
Learn how elderberry jelly is made.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
The Relationship Between Photosynthesis and Breathing
Learn about the role of photosynthesis in glucose and oxygen production in plants....
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Sugarcane
Lines of sugarcane before harvest.
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Sugar crops
Structures of the sugarcane (left) and sugar beet (right).
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bagasse
Bagasse.
David Monniaux
blackstrap molasses
Blackstrap molasses.
Badagnani
Guadeloupe; sugarcane
Sugarcane plantation in Guadeloupe.
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photosynthesis
Green plants such as trees use carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water to create sugars....
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