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Sugar plays an outsized role in what many eat every day with the average American consuming more than 100 pounds in a year, according to the USDA. The multi-billion dollar sugar business is the ...

Ongoing plans to restructure the Cuban sugar industry has meant that 90,000 of Cuba’s 420,000 sugar workers will be trained for new jobs, according to an announcement by Cuban President Fidel Castro.

• While sugar cane accounts for half of the sugar produced in the U.S. each year, the other half comes from sugar beets, white root vegetables that weigh two to five pounds each. • California’s ...