Sweeeet! The skinny on sugar substitutes Additional Information

Published by Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing, 1993.

Sugar helps food taste great and also provides you with quick energy. But too much sugar can be harmful. How much sugar does your body need? What does your body do with sugar once you eat it? Why does sugar make things taste sweet? With color photographs, diagrams, and cartoon illustrations, this book considers the different kinds of sugars and where they come from. The farming of sugarcane, other kinds of sweeteners, and the history of sugar are discussed. Also included are activities and recipes, as well as a metric-conversion chart, a glossary, an index, and a list of recommended readings.

Published by Macmillan Publishing Co, 1987.

Eleven-year-old Amy can’t understand what’s happening to her. She’s hungry and eats all the time, but she’s still losing weight. And she’s having other problems too—she’s thirsty and tired and she’s even started to wet the bed. One day she collapses and is rushed to the hospital. The doctors discover that she has diabetes. Learning to cope with this disease is the subject of a moving, information-filled novel. This book will be especially helpful for kids who have diabetes. Readers who don’t have diabetes will gain a new understanding of the disease.

Freeman Swain

Published by Holiday House, 2003.

What was candy like before people learned to refine sugar? Would you like to attend a banquet where all the plates and goblets were made out of sugar? Where does chocolate come from? How has technology changed candy? Find the answers to these candied questions, and more, in this illustrated history of candy. Cartoonlike illustrations accompany the fact-filled text, which begins with the use of sugarcane in India. Learn about maple sugaring, the history of chocolate, early American “penny candy,” and the accidental invention of fudge. If your sweet tooth is ready to nibble by the end of the book, a few recipes are appended.