Americans Now Eating Average of 100 Pounds of Sugar a Year, 1921

By the U.S. Press

Washington, June 17—Sugar consumption in the United States will make a new high record in the fiscal year ending with this month. The quantity imported from foreign countries, says a statement by the National City Bank of New York was greater in the 10 months for which figures are now available than in the corresponding period of any preceding year. The domestic production of the year was bigger than ever before and the exportation only about half that of the corresponding 10 months of the preceding year.

We may not be surprised if the official figures showing the average per capita consumption in the fiscal year 1921 run up nearly to 100 pounds per capita, against 91 ½ pounds per capita in fiscal year 1920, the former high record year; 82 pounds in 1919, and 89 pounds per capita in the high record pre-war year 1914.

From The Commonwealth, Scotland Neck, N.C., June 17, 1921. By comparison, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says the average American now consumes between 150 and 170 pounds of refined sugars each year.