Question

read the passage from sugar changed the world. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory - created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners which sentence best states the authors claim in this passage? advances in the production of sweeteners hastened the end of involuntary servitude. the age of science has made the role of modern chemists similar to the former role of slaves.

Explanation:

The passage emphasizes that beet - sugar was a sign of the end of the Age of Sugar as it showed sweetness could be created without slaves, plantations, or cane, indicating the coming of the Age of Science. It also mentions the rise in beet - sugar production and the discovery of saccharine. The overall idea is that advances in sweetener production (such as beet - sugar and saccharine) were leading to the end of the old sugar - production methods related to slavery and plantations.

Answer:

Advances in the production of sweeteners hastened the end of involuntary servitude.