The process of making sugar starts with sugar cane. Lots and lots of sugar cane! Workers used to cut it by hand, but now they use a machine because too many people died from snakes in the fields. After cutting, they put the cane into a crusher, which crushes all the cane juice out. (The Chinese make this into non-fizz soda.) Then the juice gets dried into great tasting sugar. To make brown sugar, they just add a little molasses. It’s simple! We went to a miniature factory and learned these things.
We also learned some history about sugar. The Indians were the first to make sugar in 500B.C. But the Africans first brought it to Australia in the late 1700s. These are great facts and GREAT tasting sugar!
