Palms are believed to be among the oldest flowering plants in the world. Palms have been tapped for centuries throughout the world to produce sweet drinks (toddy), fermented drinks (toddy & arak) and syrup and sugar. It has been postulated that the Arenga Pinnata palm was one of man’s first sources of sugar. This Arenga sugar comes from Indonesia where the tapped sap has been collected for hundreds of years. Traditionally it is boiled over open fires in huge metal […]

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