Cane Sugar

is made out of sugar cane which is grown in the tropics. Sugar cane contains up to 20 per cent of sugar in its stems. In order to reach this sought after raw material, the sugar cane is pressed in a grinder. The yielded juice which contains the sugar is, however, also somewhat polluted. These nebulas are bound with the help of the addition of chalk and carbon dioxide and are then separated from the sugar fluid through filtering. With this procedure, the sugar juice is cleansed and, by adding sugar syrup, it is thickened and, thereby, crystallised.

 

This crystallisation process is relatively quick. The remaining syrup is separated from the crystals via centrifugation. The cane sugar is, however, still yellow-brown coloured due to the syrup residue which is still sticking to it. These are finally removed from the sugar crystals by washing them and employing steam to clean them. After this process, the cane sugar is, again, dissolved and crystallised. It is only now that the snow-white sugar is received, the refined sugar.

 

 


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