Short answer: Sugarcane. In some places sugar also comes from the sugar beet plant.
- What sugarcane looks like: Sugarcane is a tall, thick grass with long stalks that looks a bit like bamboo.
- Getting the sweet juice: Farmers cut the stalks and squeeze them to get sweet juice, like squeezing juice from a straw.
- Making sugar crystals: The sweet juice is boiled until the water goes away and little sugar crystals appear, like tiny sand made of sugar.
- Making sugar cubes: Those sugar crystals are pressed together into small square blocks called sugar cubes, which we drop into our tea.
- Also sugar beet: In some places people make sugar from a root called sugar beet. It gets turned into sugar the same way: juice, boil, crystals, press into cubes.
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Seven ways to ask the same question:
- Which plant is used to make sugar cubes for tea?
- What plant do sugar cubes come from?
- Which plant is turned into the sugar we put in tea?
- From what plant are the sugar cubes made?
- Which plant makes the sweet sugar for our tea?
- What plant can be processed into the sugar cubes we use in tea?
- What plant do people use to make sugar cubes for tea?