Sugars on Gor

We know there are at least four Gorean sugars, possibly more.
Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling head down, served us our desert, slices of topsit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars.
Rogue

((There is a tendency to take this quote to mean there are precisely four Gorean sugars. The quote says "sprinkled with four Gorean sugars" which is different in meaning than "sprinkled with THE four Gorean sugars". Consider the difference in this way - "She set out slices of four Gorean fruits on a tray." versus "She set out slices of THE four Gorean fruits on a tray." - Librarian's Conclusion, there are at least four varieties of Gorean sugars, possibly more.))

At other times, sugars are mentioned (as plural, more than one, but no specific number of (varieties of) sugars is mentioned.

Here we see "two of the assorted sugars"
Immediately the girl, kneeling, prepared to serve me. "I believe Master prefers his black wine 'second slave,'" she said "Yes," I said. I watched her pouring the beverage.
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"Now pour yourself a cup of wine," I said. "Yes, Master," she said. "May I mollify my beverage?" "Yes," I said. I watched her as she mixed in a plentiful helping of powdered bosk milk, and two of the assorted sugars.
Guardsman

A mention of "sugars"
In a few Ehn Lola returned with the tray, with the vessel of steaming liquid, the creams and sugars, the tiny cups, and the small spoons for mixing and measuring.
Rogue

Yellow and white are the only two "variations" of sugars specifically mentioned in the books.

With a tiny spoon, its tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow in the cup.
Tribesmen

Yellow Turian Sugar

"Yellow" sugar, in one instance, is specifically referred to as "Turian" sugar. This could refer to Turia as being the place that makes "yellow" sugar, or, since the quote is of the Wagon Peoples, it could simply refer to the fact that the Wagon Peoples as a culture have/make/produce no sugar themselves and had procured it along with other staples from their nearby major city - Turia.
There was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar ...
Nomads

Molasses is a sugar product, produced in the process of making sugar.
Here we see molasses flakes.
He then began pass out, to the Dust-Leg men and women about, pieces candy, lumps of cake sugar and flakes of dried molasses. The woman with whom I was dealing, too, received a palmful of molasses flakes. She smacked her lips. Grunt and she then exchanged what I took to be appropriate civilities and compliments.
Savages

Lumps of cake sugar

Grunt went again to his stores and brought forth some packages, wrapped in waxed paper. "Canhanpisasa," said Grunt. "Canhanpitasaka. Canhanpitiktica." He then began pass out, to the Dust-Leg men and women about, pieces candy, lumps of cake sugar and flakes of dried molasses. The woman with whom I was dealing, too, received a palmful of molasses flakes. She smacked her lips. Grunt and she then exchanged what I took to be appropriate civilities and compliments.
Savages

Various goods were borne by our pack animals, both of the four-legged and two-legged varieties. My goods were all laden on my pack kaiila. Grunt's goods, on the other hand, of course, were distributed over his eleven beasts of burden, the kaiila and the ten other pack animals. My goods, substantially, consisted of blankets, colored cloths, ribbons, mirrors and beads, kettles and pans, popular in the grasslands, hard candies, cake sugar and chemical dyes. Grunt carried similar articles but he, as well, as I had not, carried such items as long nails, rivets, hatchets, metal arrowheads, metal lance points, knife blades and butcher knives.
Savages

There is no mention specifically of where on Gor sugar is produced. (With the possible exception of one interpretation of the "Turian sugar" quote)

On earth, roughly 70% of sugar is produced from sugar cane which is grown in tropical regions. 30% is produced from sugar beet, grown in temperate climates.

Information about Sugar Cane on earth

Sugar Beet on earth

Neither sugar cane nor sugar beet (or any other plant source of sugar) is defined in the books.

What we do know

Sugar is among the many goods that pass in and out of Schendi. We are not told that Schendi specifically exports sugar (it is not stated as a good that specifically passes *out* of Schendi) and neither is sugar listed among the major exports of Schendi. Those exports listed are - spices, hides, kailiauk horn and related horn products, palm wine, and sapphires.

Considering sugar production on earth it is reasonable to assume that sugar is produced primarily in tropical areas on Gor, and Schendi being located in the tropics would be one of the places to export it.

Many goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vegetables, chains, craft tools, agricultural implements, such as hoe heads and metal flail blades, wines and pagas, colorful birds and slaves. Schendi’s most significant exports are doubtless spice and hides, with kailiauk horn and horn products also being of great importance. One of her most delicious exports is palm wine. One of her most famous, and precious, exports are the small carved sapphires of Schendi. These are generally a deep blue, but some are purple and others, interestingly, White or yellow.
Explorers

Bulk sugar in a keg
A few feet to the left of the kaiila there was a keg of sugar, which had been split open. A trail of sugar, some four inches wide, some three or four yards long, drained through the split lid, had been run out behind it.
Savages

We are not told specifically where on Gor the various sugars are produced, (though we can guess), but we *are* told of some places specifically where sugar is not found.

The Northern Forest has very little sugar except for the natural sugars in berries.
Sugar, and sugary items, are suoght in trade by those few who live there.
“And a stone of candies,” she said, looking up, suddenly.
“Very well,” I said.
“For each!” she demanded.
“Very well,” I said.
She slapped her knees and laughed. The girls seemed delighted.
There was little sugar in the forest, save naturally in certain berries, and simple hard candies, such as a child might buy in shops in Ar, of Ko-ro-ba, were, among the panther girls in the remote forests, prized.
It was not unknown that among the bands in the forests, a male might be sold for as little as a handful of such candies. When dealing with men, however, the girls usually demanded, and received, goods of greater value to them, usually knives, arrow points, small spear points; sometimes armlets, and bracelets and necklaces, and mirrors; sometimes slave nets and slave traps, to aid in their hunting’ sometimes slave chains, and manacles, to secure their catches.
Hunters

For the Innuits far north of the forest sugar is also an important item to trade for.
Again, it is mentioned that there are few sweet items, save some berries, "in the north".
Hot Bazi tea I wanted. This is an important trade item in the north. I now knew why. The southern sugars are also popular. I had originally supposed this was because of their sweetness, there being few sweet items, save some berries, in the north. I now began to suspect that the calories of the sugars also played their role in their popularity. The red hunters think little of eating half a pound of sugar at a sitting.
Beasts

Another mention of Innuits trading for sugar.
"What will he do with us?" she asked.
"It is my guess," I said, "that both Thimble and yourself will be traded south next spring for tea and sugar."
"Traded! For tea and sugar!" she said.
"Yes," I said.
"Audrey Brewster sold for tea and sugar!" she said.
Beasts

As soon as the crisis is over, the possibility of trading for sugar with a man from sourthern lands is one of the first things to be discussed by the men of the Innuit.
"You have saved my life, all of you," said Ram.
"Are you hurt?" I asked.
"No," he said.
We clasped hands.
"I thought I would find you in the village of Kadluk and Imnak," he said.
Imnak had been with us at the wall. Too, I had not gone south.
"Do you have Bazi tea?" asked Akko. "Do you have sugar?" asked Naartok. The word 'Naartok' in the language of the Innuit means 'Fat Belly'. In many cases there is no particular correspondence between the name and the individual. In Naartok's case, however, the name was not inappropriate. He was a plump, jolly fellow with a weakness for sweets prodigious even among red hunters.
"Yes," said Ram, "I have tea and sugars. And I have mirrors, and beads and knives, and many other trade goods."
This news was welcome indeed. No traders, because of the wall, had come to the north for months.
"We will make a feast for our friend!" cried Kadluk.
Beasts

A mention of a trading expedition for sugar.
"Red hunters of the polar basin, trading for tea and sugar, have reported the failure of the herd to appear."
Beasts

((Librarian Note - given that berries are the only source of "sugars" in the north, shown in quotes specifically about the northern forest and the polar basin far to the north, it appears reasonable to assume that those in the bleak lands of Torvaldsland, which lie between the two, are also in the position to need to trade (or raid) for sugars.))

Sugar (and molasses flakes) is a popular trade item among the Savages.
Various goods were borne by our pack animals, both of the four-legged and two-legged varieties. My goods were all laden on my pack kaiila. Grunt's goods, on the other hand, of course, were distributed over his eleven beasts of burden, the kaiila and the ten other pack animals. My goods, substantially, consisted of blankets, colored cloths, ribbons, mirrors and beads, kettles and pans, popular in the grasslands, hard candies, cake sugar and chemical dyes. Grunt carried similar articles but he, as well, as I had not, carried such items as long nails, rivets, hatchets, metal arrowheads, metal lance points, knife blades and butcher knives.
Savages

Savages make use of the natural sugars in berries, for energy.
"Wakapapi," said Cuwignaka to me. This is the Kaiila word for pemmican. A soft cake of this substance was pressed into my hands. I crubled it. In the winter, of course, such cakes can be frozen solid. One then breaks them into small piexes, warms them in one's hands and mouth, and eats them bit by bit. I lifted the crumbled pemmican to my mouth and ate of it. There are various ways in which pemmican may be prepared, depending primarily on what one adds into the mixture, in the way of herbs, seasonings and fruit. A common way of preparing it is as follows. Strips of kailiauk meat, thinly sliced and dried on poles in the sun, are pounded fine, almost to a powder. Crushed fruit, usually, chokecherries, is them added to the meat. The whole, then, is mixed with, and fixed by, kailiauk fat, subsequently, usually, being divided into small, flattish, rounded cakes. The fruit sugars make this, in its way, a quick-energy food, while the meat, of course, supplies valuable, long-lasting stamina protein. This, like the dried meat, or jerky, from which it is made, can be eaten either raw or cooked. It is not uncommon for both to be carried in hunting or on war parties.
Blood Brothers

Those in Turia seem to have a preference for heavily sugaring their wines.
It was a Turian saying. They used wines in which, as a matter of fact, things could be and were, upon occasion, stirred mostly spices and sugars.
Nomads

Before them had been placed large golden dishes heaped with delicacies prepared by the kitchens of the Ubar, tall precious goblets filled with Turian wines, the small bowls of spices and sugars with their stirring spoons at hand.
Nomads

I did not much care for the sweet, syrupy wines of Turia, flavored and sugared to the point where one could almost leave one's fingerprint on their surface.
Nomads