Sugar

As we can see, nowadays, sugar is the most consumed food around the world. if it is not eaten directly then it is used to make food such as chocolates, it is also used to make drinks. Mintz is trying to understand the reason why human beings consume so much sugar? he says that people eat it because they like sweetness but that is not a clear answer to the question because some people might consume a lot of sugar while others hardly eat it. I'd rather suggest that human beings do not have the same tastes, we can all be created the same way but at the same time having different point of views on things.
People consume sugar at least once per day because it gives a lot of energy. Mintz also tells us that people didn't know about sugar in the past but later knew about it as it became a necessity in the diet of every english person. Arabs were actually producing sugar and selling it to the British.