🍬Candy is made of sugar. Sugar comes from a plant called sugarcane.

🪴Some sugar comes from beets, too.

🍭A lollipop starts as sugar syrup. It is cooked until very hot.

🍭Then it cools down and gets hard.

🌳Chocolate comes from a tree. The beans grow in a pod.

🫘In the pod, beans sit in soft white pulp.

🫘The beans are dried and roasted. That makes the chocolate taste.

🍬Long ago, chocolate was a drink. Hard bars came in 1847.

🍬Cotton candy is sugar spun into thin strands.

🍬A jelly bean is soft inside. Its shell is hard sugar.

Words to know

• pulp: soft fruit part
• syrup: thick sweet liquid
• roasted: cooked dry