how is sugar made?

Question

how is sugar made?

Answer 1

Squish sugar cane (or sugar beets, if you prefer.) Cook the liquid until it becomes a thick syrup and starts crystallizing. If you want natural (like demerara or piloncillo) sugar, just cook it down and let it dry until you get crystals. If you want white (refined) sugar, you have to rinse the crystals over and over until you get all the molasses out. I don't know if they put anything else in sugar to bleach out the color.

Now, brown sugar *looks* natural, but it's made by mixing white sugar with molasses (cooked-down cane syrup. Or cooked-down sorghum, which is also called treacle. Or is cane syrup treacle? Anyway.) So it has any residual nutrients bleached out, then it has a little bit of molasses mixed in to make it brown. Moral is, get natural sugar if you want the tiny bit of nutritional value of unrefined sugar.

Mmmmm, sugar cane! If you're traveling in a tropical place, suck on some sugar cane--it's great! Like natural Pixy-Stix!

Answer 2

In Michigan we grow sugar beets. They are about the size of a rutabaga, and are white. They are a root, like red beets. Then they are processed, probably in a procedure similar to cane sugar. Pioneer brand sugar is beet sugar.

Answer 3

It is refined out from the juices of sugar cane and sugar beets.

Answer 4

They get the sugar out of a sugar cane, i think, that is a Really good qestion : )

Answer 5

From sugar cane or beets.

Answer 6

sugar cane juice is boiled and until it crystalizes. first comes molases then sugar.

Answer 7

refined from sugar cane

Answer 8

it is made from sugar beets they have a cystal sugar refining in moorehead minn...they make a syrup and the water is extracted....

Answer 9

How is sugar bad for you?

Answer 10

it i s a plant from suger cane