Sugar - Visual Summary

This is a Visual Summary based on a Wikipedia article about  Sugar.  The Visual Summary is your dynamic guide through the key topics and summaries. To navigate the Visual Summary:  v click on any + or - next to a keyword   v or click on the Expand All or Collapse All buttons.   To create your own Visual Summaries try FREE WikiSummarizer.     This is a link to the  Sugar Visual Summary created by WikiSummarizer.  Key Summaries:  Sugar is a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavor.  In food, "sugars" refer to all monosaccharides and disaccharides present in food, but excludes polyols, while in its singular form, "sugar" normally refers to sucrose.  The other sugars are usually known by more specific names — glucose, fructose or fruit sugar, high fructose corn syrup, etc. Sugar production and trade has influenced human history in many ways.  The world consumed an average of 24 kilograms of sugar per year for every human being of all ages, equivalent to over 260 food calories per day per human being.  Amongst the ancient manuscripts of China, dated to be from the eighth century BC, one of the earliest historical mention of sugar cane is included along with the fact that their knowledge of sugarcane was derived from India. Sugar crystals About  WikiSummarizer WikiSummarizer is a Web-based summarization portal that summarizes Wikipedia articles and presents the results as a Visual Summary, a Tree View, and a Keyword Cloud. The Visual Summary can be navigated in any browser on Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android devices. The Keyword Cloud is linked with Wikipedia Knowledge Base. When you click on the keyword in the cloud you will be presented with an instant Visual Summary.  The keywords and summaries are easily exported to other applications such as word editors, browsers, mind mapping applications like Mindjet MindManager, MindGenius, XMind, and any other mind mapping application.If you would like to summarize any web pages and documents you can try WebSummarizer. For more information about installing WikiSummarizer for your organization or as a cloud server please contact wikisummarizer@contextdiscovery.com