Flours and Sugars are essential ingredients that make up some of the best dishes and desserts. After all what would cake, cookies, tamales or tortillas taste without them? We recommend to view more the remaining of this article to get a brief history on both and information on some of the sugar and flour products you can find at MexGrocer.com.

Sugar

Sugar is a type of edible crystalline carbohydrates that are known as fructose, sucrose and lactose. Sugar can was first cultivated in New Guinea approximately 10,000 years ago and migrated east to the Philippines and west to India. The sugar cane plant eventually made its way to Egypt through Asian trade routes. The Egyptians had extraordinarily skilled chemists who developed many of the sugar milling techniques that are known and are still in use today, such as clarification and evaporation. The Arabs were among the first to create a method for sugar making by pressing out the cane juice and boiling it into crystals around 500 BC. The Arabs later introduced sugar technology to Europe through their westward expansion into Spain during the middle ages. Sugar wasn