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Sugars are the sweet, soluble carbohydrates responsible for the sweetness in sugarcane stems, sugar-beet roots, apple fruit and palmyra sap, used widely in food and drink; sugarcane and palmyra sap are especially well suited to efficient commercial extraction. Sugarcane, resulting from repeated back-crossing of New Guinea and Indian wild parent species, is grown in almost every district of Tamil Nadu and supports sugar mills, ethanol distilleries and countless jaggery units besides being drunk as fresh cane juice. Stevia (Sweet leaf), native to Brazil and Paraguay, is a calorie-free sugar substitute roughly 200 times sweeter than sugar, its sweetness owed to the compound steveocide, making it popular with diabetic and …