Sugar

Sugaaaarrr! Excitement, mystery, sin, willpower... all feelings feeding the love-hate relationship we have with sugar. The thing is, that in the sweetened modern world, sugar walks a fine line between sin and pleasure, enjoyment and guilt. I want to, but I shouldn’t eat it; just a little...The disadvantages of eating too much sugar are well known and no less exploited by the light industry. In the following tabs, we will see that nowadays we probably eat more sugar than we believe and that in this country sugar is normally from cultivated beet from not very far away.

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Data d'actualització: 04/01/2012 - 16:53

Information sources

Companies in the sector: Atomer, Azucarera Ebro, Comité Européen des Fabricants de Sucre, Cooperativa Manduvirá, Luz de Vida (Biospirit), Mapryser;

Academic centres and experts: Food Safety and Monitoring Research Centre, Elisabet Sarri (biochemistry), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Sugar and Beet Studies Institute, Mamen Cuéllar (Institute of Sociology and Countryside Studies at the University of Córdoba), Joan Margarit (dentist);

Administrations: Department of Health of the Government of Catalonia; Spanish Ministry of the Environment and the Rural and Marine Environment; Organic Agriculture Committee of the Madrid regional government;

journals and newspapers: Diagonal, The Ecologist;

Organisations: Association for Research to Improve Sugar Beet Growing, Fairtrade Mark, Space for Fair Trade, Andalusian Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Organisations, Greenpeace, Infoagro, Oxfam, Globalisation Debt Observatory, Slow Food Paraguay, World Fair Trade Association, Consumers’ Solidarity Network.