Sugar cane
Avoid sugar cane, juice, sugar
Saccharum officinarum
At least 20,000 people are estimated to have died of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Central America in the past two decades, most of them sugar cane workers along the Pacific coast.
Sugar cane is harvested and chopped into small pieces, squeezing out the juice, which is then mixed with water. This liquid is then heated, and lime is added. Moisture is boiled away, and the remaining fluid is pumped into vacuum pans to concentrate the juice which crystallizes. Then it is placed into a centrifuge machine where any remaining residues (like molasses) are spun away. The crystals are then dissolved by heating to the boiling point and passed through charcoal filters. After the crystals condense, they are bleached snow-white usually by the use of pork or cattle bones.
During the refining process, 64 food elements are destroyed. All the potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, manganese, phosphate, and sulfate are removed. The A, D, and B, vitamins are destroyed. Amino acids, vital enzymes, unsaturated fats, and all fiber are gone. All refined sweeteners such as corn syrup, maple syrup, etc., undergo similar destructive processes. Molasses is the chemical and deranged nutrients that is a byproduct of sugar manufacture. Some cane sugar workers in the Philippines who ate this processed liquid prior to refinement had no dental caries unlike those who ate refined sugar who had dental bills that were sky high.
Sugar cane is very porous. If the branches of fruit are left standing upright, they can absorb the chemicals used to wash the floor at a juice shop's closing. Avoid sugar cane juice. Avoid cane sugar. This can contribute to hot flashes. It is a phytoestrogen.
