And supply is tightening. Monsoons and bad weather last year damaged sugar crops in India and Mexico; and the largest sugar exporter, Brazil, now USES half the sugar it produces to make ethanol.

可是，食糖的供给却在减少，因为在去年，季风及恶劣天气毁坏了印度和墨西哥的糖类作物，而最大的食糖出口国巴西如今把产出糖的一半都用于生产酒精。