Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
What evidence from the passage best supports the
With the rise of Islam, Egypt became the world's great
inference that white sugar was rarer
and more valuable
sugar laboratory. The kind of sugar easiest to produce
than brown sugar? Select two options.
from cane is dark-the color comes from molasses,
"Egypt became the world's great sugar laboratory"
which also makes that form of sugar spicy and even
bitter. What we call molasses is just a natural part of
"The kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is
the first grinding of sugar cane into syrup. Sugar
dark"
refiners drain out the dark molasses to use by itself
and are left with relatively white sugar. The noble and
"drain out the dark molasses to use by itself"
wealthy, who could afford sugar, wanted it to be as
oure, sweet, and white as possible. The Egyptians
"wanted it to be as pure, sweet, and white as
out how to meet that need.
possible"
igured
O "Egyptians figured out how to meet that need"