It is believed that the first sugar cane was used by a man in Polynesia.9 In 510 BC the Emperor Darius (of what was then Persia) had invaded India where he had found, “a reed which gives honey without bees.”9. But of course it’s not 100% proven that this is true. Officially, Sucrose was discovered in India in 6 century AD by boiling cane juice.1 In 1747 Andreas Sigismund Marggra (A German scientists) was examining sugar beets when he discovered sucrose.1 Later in 1802, Franz Achard (who was a student of Marggra) was the first to set an industrial process for its extraction.1 Sucrose is a disaccharide which is made up of glucose and fructose (they are linked due to their anomeric carbons).8 It’s extracted through crushing the sugarcane with
