Sucrose has never been a necessity of life. However, it’s so addictive that it altered the gustation of humankind. Previously, human beings engaged in trade, wars and colonization for sucrose. Nowadays, people start to abstain from sugar and work out actively in order to keep fit and healthy. Accordingly, sugar has played different roles in different historical contexts. Sucrose’s value and definition evolved from an agricultural product into a tradable commodity. Today, it caused a civilized social symptom from which escape is nowhere on the horizon. The sucrose industry has performed different social functions in different periods of time as well. The proliferation via free trade even boosted the tropical commodity economy in colonies. By virtue of the historical development and imagination unfolded from the sucrose industry, this project seeks to investigate the history, power, trade, circulation, modernization and processing of tropical cash crops as well as the reversed flow in colonies under the free trade system. This project also responds to the social circumstances with artistic practice in the era of globalization, contemplating people’s pursuit of a better life and presenting the varied roles and value of the sucrose industry in different periods of time.