Which Plant Makes Sugar Cubes for Tea? — Simple Explanation for a 5-year-old

Seven ways to say the question

• Which plant becomes sugar cubes for my tea?
• What plant is used to make sugar cubes for tea?
• Where do the sugar cubes in my tea come from?
• What plant makes the sweet stuff we put in tea?
• Which plant gives us sugar for our tea?
• What plant is turned into the sugar we put in tea?
• From which plant do sugar cubes come?

Simple answer for a 5-year-old

Most sugar cubes come from a tall grassy plant called sugarcane. Another plant that can make sugar is the sugar beet. Factories turn these plants into the little sugar cubes you put in tea.

Step-by-step — how plants become sugar cubes

1. Farmers grow sugarcane or sugar beets in fields.
2. People pick the plants and take them to a factory.
3. The factory crushes the plants to get the sweet juice out.
4. They boil the juice to make sugar crystals.
5. The crystals are dried and pushed together into little cubes.
6. Now you can drop a sugar cube into your tea to make it sweet!

Thats it — sugarcane (and sometimes sugar beet) is the plant that becomes sugar cubes for tea.