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It'd be more accurate to say that corn grows in many more places in North America than sugar cane. I was surprised to learn that vastly more pounds of sugar fro
by Exmoor 6y ago
It'd be more accurate to say that corn grows in many more places in North America than sugar cane. I was surprised to learn that vastly more pounds of sugar from cane is produced in the US (~32 million pounds a year) than corn syrup (~8 million pounds a year).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_industry_of_the_United_States#Sugar_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_industry_of_the_United_S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup#Unite...
- maxerickson 6y agoThe values listed there are the sugar cane harvest, not the sugar produced from it. Per https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/outlooks/100085/sss-m-388.pdf?v=850.9 https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/outlooks/100085/sss-m-388.p... the recovery rate varies from 9 to 14 percent. Cane sugar production runs about 4 million short tons, which is about 8 billion pounds. Beets add a similar, somewhat larger amount. HFCS production is also on a similar scale, billions of pounds a year. But then 80% of corn goes to animal feed and ethanol production, so HFCS isn't the major end use.