Sugar beet is grown in the UK and the rest of Europe.
Sugar cane is grown in tropical climates and imported.
The sugar is extracted, refined and crystallised into a variety of white and brown forms - commonly used to sweeten hot drinks or used in domestic cooking or in food processing. The residue from sugar production is molasses, a strongly flavoured, almost black syrup, which can be clarified to form treacle. Golden syrup is partially inverted syrup made from intermediate sugar liquours from the refining process. Honey is produced by bees from nectar and has a distinctive flavour which depends on the flowers which the bees visit. The honey is extracted from wax honey-combs by spinning or by heat extraction.