
Sugar crystals come from the sugar cane plant. People from the Polynesian Islands first used it more than five thousand years ago. In 1493, Christopher Columbus brought sugar cane to the Caribbean. The sugarcane plant looks like a big grass. It has a very juicy stalk. Pressing the stalks through large rollers squeezes the juice out and it is mixed with water before being heated. It is also treated with limewater (the common name for a diluted solution of calcium hydroxide) and sulphur dioxide. Eventually, after more heating, a clear liquid is separated from the sugarcane juice. It turns into a

Finally! The Chicken Newspaper Food edition is available to download in Issuu! Get it now. This is our first fully digital issue and we hope you agree it’s a stunner! The issue is all about food and features the letter O.

Prime Numbers are natural numbers greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers. For example: 5 is a prime number. It can only be divided evenly by 1 or 5. But 6 is not a prime number. It can be divided evenly by 1, 2, 3 and 6. It is a composite number. In 2016 the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS for short, discovered the largest known prime number. GIMPS is a large computing project run by volunteers who use software to search for prime numbers. GIMPS has 15 primes discovered so far. The new prime is