2006-10-30 07:41:41 · 6 answers · asked by Kendall A 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Squeeze the juice out of sugar cane, then boil until it crystallises. Have a look at the site below!
2006-10-30 07:48:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sugar comes from plant sources: commonly from sugarcane and sugar beets. If you are curious about how the industry produce it, here's how. This is taken from Wikipedia.
Cane
Cane-sugar producers crush the harvested vegetable material, then collect and filter the juice. They then treat the liquid (often with lime (calcium oxide)) to remove impurities and then neutralize it with sulfur dioxide. Boiling the juice then allows the sediment to settle to the bottom for dredging out, while the scum rises to the surface and for skimming off. In cooling the liquid crystallises, usually in the process of stirring, to produce sugar crystals. Centrifuges usually remove the uncrystallised syrup. The producers can then either sell the resultant sugar, as is, for use; or process it further to produce lighter grades. This processing may take place in another factory in another country.
Beet
Beet-sugar producers slice the washed beets, then extract the sugar with hot water in a "diffuser". An alkaline solution ("milk of lime" and carbon dioxide from the lime kiln) then serves to precipitate impurities (see carbonatation). After filtration, evaporation concentrates the juice to a content of about 70% solids, and controlled crystallisation extracts the sugar. A centrifuge removes the sugar crystals from the liquid, which gets recycled in the crystalliser stages. When economic constraints prevent the removal of more sugar, the manufacturer discards the remaining liquid, now known as molasses.
2006-10-30 07:53:34 · answer #2 · answered by titanium007 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easiest is to drive down to the store and buy it. Making sugar is much more difficult. It involves the cooking of sugar cane, then removing the water, the the bleaching process to make the brown sugar white.
2006-10-30 07:50:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From sugar cane. I'm not sure how they do it ..it's a big process. Good luck with it.
2006-10-30 07:45:30 · answer #4 · answered by aimstir31 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
umm, from a sugar cane
2006-10-30 09:31:27 · answer #5 · answered by rdnkchic2003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
evaporating juice from sugarcane wich is a tropical grass.
2006-10-30 07:50:43 · answer #6 · answered by knowndebaser 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋