Can you help me with this reading?

Sweet Foods

Humans share a strong appetite for sweet foods; it is the only universally innate taste preference. If, for millennia, the consumption of bread ensured sustenance and survival, eating sweet foods ensured satisfaction and pleasure. For much of prehistory, historians assume that fruits were humans鈥?primary source of sweet foods. Sweet pastes made from dates and figs and syrups made from the juices of fruits such as grapes and berries were also used to sweeten foods. Tree sap from maple and birch trees sweetened foods, as did syrups from cooked grains such as sorghum. Honey was the first concentrated sweetener to be widely used. In ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, honey was used to season both savory and sweet dishes and as a preservative. Egyptian hieroglyphs from the 15th century B.C.E. depicting clay beehives document the cultivation of bees for their honey.



鈥擫abensky, Sarah R., Priscilla Martel, and Eddy Van Damme. On Baking: A Textbook of Baking and Pastry Fundamentals. 2nd Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009. 5. Print.



What is the topic of this paragraph?





a)

fruit



b)

avoiding sweets



c)

honey



d)

sweet foodsCan you help me with this reading?
Usually the first sentence or two of a paragraph will tell you what the paragraph is about.



I'm not going to do your homework for you but if you reread the first sentence you will know the answer.