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Ur.12.15
What evidence from the passage best supports the
inference that white sugar was rarer and more valuable than
brown sugar? Select two options.
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
With the rise of Islam, Egypt became the world's great sugar
laboratory. The kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is
dark—the color comes from molasses, which also makes
that form of sugar spicy and even bitter. What we call
molasses is just a natural part of the first grinding of sugar
cane into syrup. Sugar refiners drain out the dark molasses
to use by itself and are left with relatively white sugar. The
noble and wealthy, who could afford sugar, wanted it to be as
pure, sweet, and white as possible. The Egyptians figured
out how to meet that need.
"Egypt became the world's great sugar laboratory"
"The kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is dark"
"drain out the dark molasses to use by itself
"wanted it to be as pure, sweet, and white as possible"
"Egyptians figured out how to meet that need"