Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora

Podcast Network.

I'm your host Heather Tesco and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because

I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the

universe, and being more deeply in touch with our own humanity. This is episode 126 and it's

about sugar in Tudor England. If you're like me, you're one of the millions of people who are

trying to watch their sugar intake. In the past decade, more and more research has come out about

how addictive sugar is, and

dentists have found that kids in England now have the same rate of tooth decay as in the 17th

century.

So what is this history of this oh so addictive sweet white powder, which we seem to want to

put everywhere?

Did our tutor friends use sugar?

Most people have heard the stories about Elizabeth the first rotten teeth because of her

sweet tooth, but what about our other tutor friends?

Also, I've done a number of episodes about food and sumptuary laws, which you might find

interesting.

I'm going to link to them at Englandcast.com slash sugar, which is the show notes for this episode.

Again, that's Englandcast.com slash sugar.

Before we get started, I just want to remind you about TudorCon.

We're about three months away from the world's first ever TudorCon.

And I cannot wait to hang out with you.

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