It was used mostly for making alcohol (rum)
Cane sugar was first used by man in Polynesia, from there it was introduced to India. then on to Persia in 510 BC
You have not specified a country for these natives so we can not give you a precise answer. Cane Sugar Palm Sugar Jaggery Honey
Before cultivated sugar from sugar cane or sugar beet, honey was the only source of sugar for sweetening food and drink. Honey has also been used for many hundreds of years as a wound dressing, and it does have anti-bacterial properties.
The historic record on sugar suggests that the English did not make sugar during the middle ages. Sugar cane would not have grown there. Beets were not used for sugar until after the middle ages. The production of sugar from tree sap was unknown until learned from natives in North America. And there seems to be no record of sugar from grain or fruit. Certainly, the English had honey. There are links below.
Yes it was first common in the islands near Florida. There would be islands producing nothing but sugar with little concerns of slaves escaping because they were on an island. Most of this was used in the creation of Rum to be sold to Europe.
sugar cane
Cane Sugar
Sugar cane is the type of grass uses in the sugar industry. It is grown, harvested and then the sugars are extracted and refined.
It is the plant they use to harvest sugar.
Sugar cane is used to make sugar a lot of places but in some cases people use sugar beet. So basically if you took away sugar cane the sugar supply might not be as plentiful.
Sugar cane is used to make ethanol and sugar cane is a renewable energy resource, it also reduces certain greenhouse emission.
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Yes it was used as a sweetener and preservative. These are the days before sugar was obtained from cane or beet.
The sugar cane in the plant that the most common used sugar is stracted from. First the juice is squeezed and from there the process is done. In the related links box below, I posted the wikipedia article on sugar cane for more information.
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Sugar cane.Sugar cane & sugar beet
Sugar cane is used in many products. You may think that only sweet items use sugar cane, however, this is not so. It is also used in Skin Care products, alcohol, and tobacco.