Sugar was one of the first pharmaceutical ingredients used, as it still is today, to mask the bitter taste of medicines?
One orange has 3 teaspoons of sugar and lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
Sugar is the only taste humans are born craving.
A can of Coke has 39 grams of sugar and a can of Pepsi has 41 grams of sugar. That is about seven teaspoons or 13 lumps of sugar per can!
A spoonful of sugar added to a vase will prolong the life of freshly cut flowers.
There are 725,000 sugar crystals in each cube of sugar.
The trick to curing hiccups is to get the nerves that regulate breathing synchronized by taking a teaspoon of granulated sugar.
Sugar hardens asphalt. It slows the setting of ready-mixed concrete and glue.
Sugar is used in leather tanning, printers' inks and dyes and even in textile sizing and finishing.
Chemical manufacturers use sugar to grow penicillin.
'Sure' and 'Sugar' are the only two words in the English language that are spelt 'su' and pronounced 'sh'. ... '.
Leprechauns don't really have a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but a pot of Shooga Shooga Candy...Ok! We made that up. Could not help ourselves! ;-)
