Exploring Sugar: Research

So for the exploring sugar I was a bit lost again at first and I tried to explore a little bit of the alternative uses of sugar and I found that sugar being very hygroscopic is a good antibacterial on open wounds because it crystalize all the water the bacteries have to grow. This also makes it a good cleaning agent for some stuffs like coffee grinder and it also help remove odors. Sugar can also be used to light up fire because it produces hydroxymethylfurfural that is a fire friendly chemical when it decomposes with fire.

I also studies the medical usage of sugar because sugar was vastly used as a medicines in some countries long ago. other that sugar being used on wounds, I found that sugar itself doesn't have any medical properties, however because it melts slowly in your mouth this makes it a good lozenges for soar throat. I also found that it cannot be used as medicines but it can be used to bring medicines faster to an infection or something to cure people.

I've also seen that people using sugar as medicine long ago was said to be just in their mind as it's proven that sugar doesn't cure anything. Back then people related medicines with the 4 elements, 4 humours and 4 physical qualities and sugar was considered cold so it was said to cure fever which increases your body temperature.

Well I also dig into psychology a little bit and found that immune system doesn't work well when you're stressed. And another research I did also shows that sugar releases a substance that makes you feel happy when it get digested. So I kind of related that to why maybe the people in the ancient time were feeling better with sugar.

However I also found that sugar also makes you depressed after the substance that makes you feel happy dissipate. Therefore many people with diabetes who have depression and people relate it to this fact. Compared to all the other research I wasn't really able to get ideas for them but this one I did and it kinds of connects back to my animation in my concept map. So I decided to go towards this direction.

I also thought what it we could extract sugar from fruits and use that. And I research and I found that it can be made by grinding the fruit and dehydrating it and stuffs. I also found that fruit sugar is healthier because it has a lot of vitamines and fibers. And because of that you will feel full for a long period of time and also it get digested less easily therefore your blood sugar level doesn't rise abruptly and this makes it a better choice for people with diabetes also.

So I thought of several Ideas

Making a diet plan

Makes a poster or something to share the knowledge of making sugar on your own

Also I thought I could support both of these ideas by making a leaflet that will talk about how you can use your refine sugar that you are not using so much because of the sugar diet.

I also thought of doing all 4 at the same time.

And my target audience this time will be a more mature audience, mostly people who already have health issues like diabetes or just people who wants to control their sugar intake.

So after presenting my stuffs to my lecturer in a tutorial, she told me all 4 at the same time would not be a very good idea as as I will need to make all of them perfectly and not roughly. And she also told me to check on these companies below.

So what these companies do is that they deliver the exact amount of ingredients that you will need for specific dishes that you can choose on their website. Their goal is mainly to encourage people to cook at home so that they know exactly what's in their dishes and also to encourage a healthier lifestyle.

And I could relate my project to this because this will boast the confidence of my audience and will help them make their own sugar, also they will know exactly what's in the sugar which will have no added sugars and no chemicals and lastly their will be no wastage as the audience will receive the exact amount of ingredients they will need.