Where sugar originated
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Sugar originated in New Guinea around 8000 BCE, the process of turning sugarcane juice to crystals was discovered by the Indians. This is done by extracting the juice from the sugarcane by grinding or pounding on it, the leaving it out in the sun to dry or by boiling it. It was easier to store and very easy to transport. From archeological and literary evidence, historians have located some key sites of early cultivation were India, the Philippines Islands, and Indonesia