PLANTS EAT SUGAR 
of potatoes were analyzed, it would be found to be almost 
all starch. The plants that produced these foods from 
sugar manufactured in their leaves have converted them 
into the starch form for storage. 
Various kinds of animals eat grass in the field, corn on 
the cob, jam on their bread. In any of these cases they 
are going back to the sugar that was used by the plants 
from which these products come. Sugar is one of the 
most important food products in the world. Without it 
neither animal nor plant life could exist. 
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