Who doesn’t enjoy sweets or candy? These days there are thousands of sweets to choose from with something to suit every taste.
All sweets have one thing in common, sugar! Its believed that the first people to become aware of sugarcane were the islanders of Papua New Guinea, though Indians are credited with being the first to boil sugarcane to make brown sugar.
Gradually the Indians began to make candy and when the Persian emperor Darius attacked India,the Persians and Indians began to work together to export brown sugar, however this sweet arrangement came to an end when the Arabs invaded, they stole the recipies and the secret became known throughout the world.
Meanwhile the Chinese were experimenting experimenting by adding honey to fruit and nuts.
In the 1700s, boiled sugar candies became popular in the American colonies.
Still more types of sweets or candy began to be created in the 1800s and in 1844 a Dutch man invented the first hard chocolate bar, then in Switzerland in 1875 Daniel Peters invented the first milk chocolate bar.
By the 20th century all types of sweets and candies were being created including lemon drops, peppermint and other types of flavours. Factories producing sweets sprouted up all over the place.
Today Cadbury is the largest sweet manufacturer in the world.
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