Compound Research Paper: Sucrose

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Compound Research Paper: Sucrose
Have you ever wondered why most food contains sugar? I’m doing this compound because sucrose is the compound that most food these days contained, not only as a child, I always like to eat food that was filled with sucrose; sugar. So what makes most manufacturers choose sugar to put in their food instead other compounds and why do sugared food attracted more people than food with a lot of sodium.Sucrose is a compound that is naturally occurring carbohydrate found in many plants, but the sucrose that was consumed by the humans is the sugar from cane or beet sugar; a plant root that have a high concentration of sucrose with a chemical formula of C12H22O11. Sucrose affects our people and the community in both good
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When King Darius and Persians invaded India, they discovered the secret and kept it to themselves. Not until the 642 AD, where the Arab acknowledges the secret of sugar and how it was grown, they invaded Persia and revealed the secret of sugar to the Western Europeans in the 7th Century, because of the crusades, many countries didn’t receive the secret of sugar until 1943, where Columbus sailed to America to grow sugar cane, which at that time, many countries also received its knowledge about sugar. Sucrose or sugar at the time was one of the expensive seasoning, that cost about 100 dollars per kilo, because of it’s expensive value, sugarcane was later replaced by sugar beets in 1747. Sugar beet is what most companies use to make sugar because of its high concentration of sucrose, in addition to its high concentration of sugar, its growing environment and temperature are much easier than sugar cane. It was discovered by a German chemist named Andreas Sigismund Marggraf. In 1750, many sugar companies throughout the world earned a lot of profit from it where the government decided to raise the sugar tax up, which made many companies changed to getting their sucrose from sugar beets as their main source instead of having to transport sugar cane from warm tropical countries for …show more content…
Sucrose is of the compounds that doesn’t affect much on animals and plants except for us. Throughout the world, the areas that are mostly used for manufacturing sugar or industrializing sugar, those surround like rivers and wetlands have been dried up because of the sugar production. When sugar is being produced, it created more biodiversity loss than any other crop, because of its devastation of habitat for plantations, its over use of water for irrigation, its overwhelming use of agricultural chemicals, and the contaminated wastewater that is routinely released in the sugar creation process. For instance, the Great Barrier Reef off the shoreline of Australia. The waters around the reef experience the ill effects of huge amounts of effluents, pesticides and residue from sugar ranches, and the reef itself is undermined by the clearing of land, which has pulverized the wetlands that are a basic part of the reef's biology. Based on my opinion, people should reduce the amount of sweetened food and beverages consumed everyday to reduce the number of sugar have to be produced, which means that those rivers and wetlands would dry up slower and our Earth wouldn’t have to suffer the need of water some days in the