All fruits and some vegetables, like sugar cane, corn, and beets, have natural sugar.
By the 18th century, farmers there were growing sugar cane on plantations.
In 1835, an American company started the first large sugar cane plantation in Hawaii.
People first chewed sugar cane because they knew that a very sweet juice came out.
The big business of growing sugar cane and making sugar has also changed the history of several countries.
The weather in the southern United States was also excellent for growing sugar cane.
Today, 80 percent of the sugar people use comes from sugar cane.
