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  2. History of sugar - Wikipedia

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    There are records of knowledge of sugar among the ancient Greeks and Romans, but only as an imported medicine, and not as a food. For example, the Greek physician Dioscorides in the 1st century (AD) wrote: "There is a kind of coalesced honey called sakcharon [i.e. sugar] found in reeds in India and Eudaimon Arabia [i.e. Yemen [ 32 ] ] similar ...

  3. Nutrition in classical antiquity - Wikipedia

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    Classical antiquity is the period of cultural history spanning from the 8th century BC to the beginning of the Middle Ages (which began around 500 AD). The major civilizations are those of the Mediterranean region, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and southwest Asia.

  4. Lokma - Wikipedia

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    Greek loukoumádes served at a pub in Melbourne, Australia. The recipe for Luqmat al-Qadi, yeast-leavened dough boiled in oil and doused in honey or sugar syrup with rosewater, dates back to at least the early medieval period and the 13th-century Abbasid Caliphate, where it is mentioned in several of the existent cookery books of the time.

  5. History of diabetes - Wikipedia

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    [3] [22] According to On Ancient Medicine, Hippocrates was under the impression that the slumbering and thirst which resulted from high blood sugar was due to the bowels struggling to digest too much food and the weaknesses resulting from low blood sugar were because the body lacked nourishment due to missing a meal. [23] [24]

  6. Byzantine cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine cuisine was the continuation of local ancient Greek cuisine, ancient Roman cuisine, and Mediterranean cuisine. Byzantine trading with foreigners brought in grains, sugar, livestock, fruits, vegetables, and spices that would otherwise be limited to specific geographical climates.

  7. Agriculture in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    An ear of barley, symbol of wealth in the city of Metapontum in Magna Graecia (i.e. the Greek colonies of southern Italy), stamped stater, c. 530–510 BCE. During the early time of Greek history, as shown in the Odyssey, Greek agriculture - and diet - was based on cereals (sitos, though usually translated as wheat, could in fact designate any type of cereal grain).

  8. Oligosaccharide - Wikipedia

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    View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... from Ancient Greek ... 'sugar') is a saccharide polymer containing a small number (typically three to ...

  9. Sesame seed candy - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greece and Rome [ edit ] Similar foods are documented in Ancient Greek cuisine : itrion (ἴτριον) was a thin biscuit/cake made with sesame seeds and honey, [ 1 ] the Cretan koptoplakous (κοπτοπλακοῦς) or gastris (γάστρις) was a layer of ground nuts sandwiched between two layers of sesame crushed with honey. [ 2 ]