Czapp Explains: The Japanese Sugar Industry

Japan is a sugar market outlier; of all the developed nations in the world, it has the lowest sugar consumption per person.

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At 15kg per person per year, this is around half the rate of sugar consumption seen in countries like the UK and Australia.

Japan has a mature non-sugar sweetener market, with starch sweeteners, sugar alcohols and high-intensity sweeteners all commonly being used in the place of sugar.

It also has a mature beet and cane sector, which produces around a third of its sugar needs.

In addition to the cane and beet sector, there are 17 sugar refineries in Japan, which import raw sugar for processing into refined.

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This Czapp Explainer was Published on the 16th April 2021.

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