The juice in the stalk contains the highest calorie content of any plant in the world.

The first enslaved Africans forcefully brought to the Americas in 1505 provided the back-breaking labor to grow, harvest, and process sugar in the Americas. This continued for nearly 350 years primarily in Brazil and the Caribbean as well as in the United States along the Gulf Cost, concentrated in Louisiana.

 

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