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. What evidence from the passage best supports the inference that white sugar was rarer and more valuable than brown sugar? Select two options. "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"
"the kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is dark" and "wanted it to be pure, sweet, and white as possible"
Explanation:
"the kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is dark": shows that white sugar takes more effort to procure, therefore rarer than dark sugar.
"wanted it to be pure, sweet, and white as possible": the noble and wealthy wanted white sugar. this shows that it is valued by those of higher status. as they wanted it white as possible, it is clear that white sugar is valued more than dark sugar.
“ the kind of sugar easiest to produce is dark” because if it is easy to make it is less rare/ less valuable, Which makes white sugar rarer. Also “wanted it to be as pure, sweet, and white as possible” because if you try to make something as pure and sweet as possible, the sugar will be considered more valuable since it will take more effort to create that item.
