Farmers bitter at Tate & Lyle sugars' Made in Britain packaging The National Farmers’ Union has called for a fresh review of grocery products marketed with the flag The sugar is grown in plantations around the world, from Belize to Brazil Credit: Chris Ratcliffe Farmers have accused the food giant Tate & Lyle Sugars of misleading shoppers by putting a Made in Britain logo on its sugar grown in plantations around the world from Belize to Brazil. The American-owned company promotes its bags of white granulated pure cane sugar with a Union flag on its packaging, which states: “Made in the UK since 1878”.