Sugar

High school (ages 12+)
Food & Cooking

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/sugar

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the scientific name (sucrose)?C12H22O11
2. What is the primary production regions?Brazil, India, European Union (sugar beet), Thailand, China
3. Where does sugar come from?Sugar comes from plants such as sugarcane, grown in tropical places, and sugar beet, grown in Europe. The plants are harvested, and their juice is extracted and turned into sugar crystals.
4. How is sugar made?First the juice from sugarcane or sugar beet is cleaned and boiled to make a thick syrup. Then it is cooled and seeded with tiny crystals so that sugar crystals grow, and the crystals are separated from the liquid by spinning them in a centrifuge.

Sucrose: The common disaccharide sweetener derived from sugarcane and sugar beet, composed of glucose and fructose.