Ingredient Information

Function

Cane juice, or sugar cane juice, is the juice of the sugar cane plant, which is a type of grass. Can juice is supplied as a canned or bottled beverage. It can also be found as a sweetener in processed health food items. Cane juice contains a combination of glucose, sucrose, and fructose. There are often claims that the unprocessed, raw sugar in cane juice is better for health than refined white sugar, but in fact, raw sugar metabolizes in the body in exactly the same way as white sugar, producing the same health effects. There are tiny amounts of minerals in raw sugar, but not more than are easily obtained from other daily eaten foods.

Other Use and Industries

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Health Effects

Cane juice contains the simple sugars glucose, fructose, and sucrose. Consuming simple sugar, instantly causes the blood to become acidic. Acidic blood, over time, leads to many common, serious health problems. Acidic blood is the root cause of arthrosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, which leads to more types of heart disease. Cholesterol does form the plaque in the arteries, but the plaque forms as a protection against irritation, such as that caused by acidic blood.

Acidic blood creates the optimum conditions for cancer growth, because cancer cells thrive in an acidic environment. When the pH of the blood is correct (7.4) it carries sufficient oxygen to discourage the growth of cancer cells. This is because cancer cells are anaerobic (without oxygen), as are several other types of disease-causing agents, and they cannot flourish in an oxygen-rich environment. Acidic blood depletes cells of oxygen so it is perfect for anaerobic cells. For optimum health the correct pH of the blood must be maintained, and consuming simple sugar works against this aim.

There are often claims that raw sugar of the type found in cane juice is better for health than white sugar, but in fact, raw sugar metabolizes in the body in exactly the same way as white sugar, producing the same health effects. There are tiny amounts of minerals in raw sugar, but not more than are easily obtained from other daily eaten foods.

Origins

Cane juice is obtained by extraction from sugar cane. Sugar cane is crushed, boiled and filtered to obtain the cane juice. Further processing steps are used to preserve the juice.