Fresh Sugar Cane — Fresh 1lb Sugar Cane

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This would be the best choice as it has not been heated.

Is the sugarcane in big chuncks inside of these leaves? I was going to eat it

raw throughout the day. Does it have a lot of fiber in it? It's pure sucrose

which I guess is good. Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose.

Thank you,

Holt

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> Is the sugarcane in big chuncks inside of these leaves? I was going to eat it

raw throughout the day. Does it have a lot of fiber in it?

Sugarcane is the stem of the plant (think bamboo), and you can chew on it. It's

VERY very fibrous; don't think you could actually eat the fiber. You can chew on

the cane to extract the juice (that is, the stuff from which sugar is

evaporated).

Pam Angulo

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No, there is no inner or outer.

Sugar cane is just that, a cane. A stalk of a plant which has sap that is

sweet. There is no sugar center, it is all fibrous cane...

-Lana

" There is nothing more useful than sun and salt. " - Latin proverb

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Holt <danthemanholt@...>wrote:

> Is it easy to extract the sugarcane from the planted by peeling the bamboo

> off?

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> Sent from my iPhone

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> On Mar 14, 2009, at 7:07 AM, " og_editrix " <pam.angulo@...> wrote:

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> >

> > Is the sugarcane in big chuncks inside of these leaves? I was going to

> eat it raw throughout the day. Does it have a lot of fiber in it?

>

> Sugarcane is the stem of the plant (think bamboo), and you can chew on it.

> It's VERY very fibrous; don't think you could actually eat the fiber. You

> can chew on the cane to extract the juice (that is, the stuff from which

> sugar is evaporated).

>

> Pam Angulo

>

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> Is the sugarcane in big chuncks inside of these leaves? I was going > to eat

it raw throughout the day. Does it have a lot of fiber in

> it? It's pure sucrose which I guess is good. Sucrose is composed

> of glucose and fructose.

I can't imagine any nutritional benefit from sucking on sugarcane. It would be

better than eating white sugar by the spoonful, but still, sucrose is not a

healthy sugar. Aside from trace amounts of micronutrients I don't think there's

much else in the cane. As mentioned already, the fiber is very stringy and

probably should not be consumed.

If you want to try sugarcane, go to a bar that serves tropical drinks and order

a Mai Tai or a caipirinha. They often come with a small stick of raw sugarcane.

Tom