From Soil to Sack 



body for the formation of organic 

 tissue or the production of heat and 

 energy. Only the single sugars are 

 available. 



But, practically, this is of no con- 

 sequence since the acidity of our 

 digestive juices, the heat of our 

 bodies and our digestive ferments 

 combine to form ideal conditions for 

 inversion, and accomplish this chem- 

 ical change shortly after we have 

 eaten the double sugar. 



Cane sugar has two and one-half 

 times the sweetening power of fruit 

 sugar and more than two and one- 

 half times the sweetening power of 

 grape sugar which is one of the 

 reasons why all of our commercial 

 sugar is cane sugar instead of the 



more easily assimilable single sugars. 

 * * * * 



There are countless plants in nature 

 which may be made to yield us cane 

 sugar. All fruits contain two or 



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