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Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Same sweetness, less calorie
SAMARAHAN: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) may hold the key to reducing the country’s sugar import after discovering a cost-effective method to produce sugar from sago. A team of researchers led by the university’s Faculty of Resource Science and Technology professor in bioprocess technology, Dr Kopli Bujang, said sago sugar had the same sweetness as sugar cane but minus the calorie by 50%. He said what started out as an experiment to produce ethanol had led to a new by-product — sugar for...
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