Humans have been sweet on sweets for a very long time. Before sugar there was honey, the available natural sweetener, as long as you weren't afraid of bees. As far back as 8000 BC, New Guinea and Southeast Asian began extracting juice from the sugar cane plant and frequently chewing it for its sweet taste (kind of like early chewing gum). With the discovery of granulation a few thousand years later, it was easily transported and slowly introduced into Persia, India and ultimately the…