Do you like sugar? People like sugar for its sweetness and its energy. Sugar is the sweetener widely used in food and beverage industry. In the old days, we made sugar from the juice of the sugar palm tree, so this sweetener became known as sugar. However, sugar has many names and forms such as sugarcane, rock sugar, palm sugar, etc. Sugar is produced in many countries and approximately 70% of it is produced for sugarcane with another 30 % is produced from sugar beet.