Making sweets for any sweet dishes requires sugar is mandatory. It can be e a porridge or just a cup of tea without sugar there is a lack of taste. But when sugar was invented it was first mistakenly used as Spice. No one was aware of the test that was hidden within the sugary element. Spice not sweetener? But a spice it was hard to believe to use in any kind of dish. When we think about Spice we always try to find out the burning sensation in our tongue. Whenever we eat spice there is an expectation of flavor as well as the burns due to spiciness.
In India, there are different kinds of spices ranging from Chillies to cinnamon. But assuming sugar as spices is something unbelievable in this modern Times.
How was sugar discovered?
While looking back into the Western histories it has mentioned the necessity of sugar and its influence on the creation of medicine and the curing of diseases. Pisces are always believed to be a good element for treating different kinds of diseases. Hereby sugar was also discovered as a spice to treat diseases and oppression at the same time. There was a time when sugar was highly expensive. It was in the medieval that it was considered one of the best and most fine discovered spices around the year 1500. For trading Of Spices apart from cardamom, Ginger pepper, nutmeg nearby sugar was also traded in different parts of the world as a Spice.
The sweetness of sugar at that time, while it was in 1500, that it was not so so sweet. Therefore it was another reason that it was treated as Spice not sweetener. But you to its various benefits during the time of diseases it was prescribed as medicine. This is another reason that increases the rate of the price of sugar. As one of the rarest spices in America and Europe, its demand also was observed during the slave and labor periods of Africa. But due to its quality of sweetening the spice trade was escalating worldwide. In the modern world, sugar has brought a massive plethora of these dishes apart from the confectioneries.
Sugar as spice not sweetener? Days have changed
In the Modern Times, sugar is used less due to the different problems related to obesity and other diseases. Sugars are used in candies chocolate cakes and various other sweets. This fine Spice was later extracted from honey it was in 10,000 BC that in Asia and Africa beehives were the only source of sweeteners. In 8000 sugar was cultivated in New Guinea therefore after several centuries it was traded to India. Till then India was using honey, when sugar reached India history mentions that the first refined sugar was produced here itself, from 100 AD.
Experience the taste of the spice, not sweetener on our it was extracted fruit trees nectar from cactus and smashed fruits. But as the demand for sugar increased it led to the production of crops by exporting slaves from countries such as Brazil. Discovered as a spice not sweetener, sugar has been discovered for the need which later turned to become a flavor and taste for food.
