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"
O "The kind of sugar easiest to produce from cane is
dark"
O"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"
O english