Lots of materials are piezoelectric: cane sugar, quartz and even dried bone creates an electrical charge when stressed.
Carbohydrates were first named according to their natural sources; e.g., beet sugar, cane sugar, grape sugar, malt sugar, milk sugar, cornstarch, liver glycogen, and sweet corn glycogen.
Though this is not entirely untrue, the negative effects raw cane sugar and molasses have on your blood sugar far outweigh the benefits.
As a result, food makers are reworking decades-old recipes, eliminating the corn syrup used to sweeten foods like ketchup and crackers, and replacing it with beet or cane sugar.
The Spaniards found this "food from the gods" bitter (high in potassium), and mixed it with cane sugar as a sweetener.