Sugar – The real story

The Canes have large palm like leaves that droop out the root of the plant they collect water and feed it to the root, The sugar canes like lots of water and sunshine but their soil is barely waterlogged.
Sugar Canes are grown for about 11-18 months from planting. The canes are chopped down manually or by machines, over 1,345 million tons of canes are chopped yearly. The sugar canes are fed into machines that slice grind and spray with hot water, extracting their juice, the juice is filtered and concentrated by evaporation under vacuum then crystallised, before being removed from the remaining liquid from centrifuged. The remaining liquid is called “Molasses” which is a useful co-product which can be used for fermentation process or animal feed “Bagasse” is a residual fibre from the cane mainly used for boiler fuel for the factory’s making them more efficient.
Any of the canes impurities and original colour will be removed, (the canes by far make six times more then the sugar beet is producing). The canes are grown in 121 countries, including Brazil and other tropical regions; the UK’s only company to produce sugar of many varieties and flavours, is Tate and Lyle.
The five step process of making sugar.
1. Affination and melting.
2. Carbonation and filtration.
3. Decolourisation.
4. Evaporation and Crystallisation.
5. Separation and Drying.

Now that’s all you need to know about the making of sugar.

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