Author(s)

Yuhan Jia ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Corresponding Author

Yuhan Jia

ABSTRACT

The heart of the tip of the tongue when exposed to the sweet taste, or the huge market rising due to the demand for sugar, epitomizes the transformation of the society. Sugar was the catalyst of capitalism, through the slave trade, the plantation system, the system of slavery, and the subsequent factory industrial development, sugar demand and supply had become important economic drivers for thousands of years. Sucrose has changed from the scarcity to the cheaper corn syrup to the sugar substitute in the name of health, and the sweet history of mankind has witnessed the blood and evil in the development of capitalism. From the slave fields in Africa to the slaves working day after day in plantations to the difficult economic transition, the food industry has changed the way of sugar, with the flood of sweetness, and sweetness.

KEYWORDS

Sucrose plantation, slave trade, sweetener, fast food diet

CITE THIS PAPER

Yuhan Jia, The sweet history of sin. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2023) Vol. 5: 61-64. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2023.050911.

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