Most of the time, sugar is produced from sugar beet and sugar cane.
Sugar cane is grown in tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world. It’s a giant grass that grows as high as 16 feet. The sugar itself is in the long stem of the plant and used as a source of reserve food for the plant.
Sugar beet is a root crop that grows in more temperate parts of the world. In this plant, the sugar is stored in the root instead of the stem.
The first refined sugar was made in India around 2,500 years ago. Later, the technology spread east to China and west to Persia. In the Mediterranean, sugar appeared around the thirteenth century and was considered a rare delicacy. The production of sugar played a huge part in the history of our civilization. It resulted in colonies, as massive migration of the population of Earth.

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