How is sugar made?

Question

I had a controversial discussion with someone about SUGAR. How is it made? Does the process of raw sugar tranforms it into crystalized grains? How does it naturally looks like? Is it a sap form the sugar cane or it is a solid? Is it even natural or we the "people" make it? Why is it bleached white except for the fact that it looks prettier than brown sugar and it makes more money being white? It sounds racial....I don't like it. But either way, what is sugar?

I know it comes form beets and sugar cane but how does it naturally looks like, in what form?

Answer 1

Sugar is made from the juice of sugar cane (and sugar beets).
The juice looks a light yellow, probably due to the pulp.

But the process is essentially a boiling off of the juice.
1. Extract the juice from the cane.
2. Boil the juice until the solution is supersaturated and the sugar crystals start forming. The crystals at this point are a light brown in color - Not to be confused with brown sugar which is white sugar sprayed with molasses.
3. The "raw" sugar is next dissolved and put through a "bleaching" process to whiten the sugar - filtration, acids and carbonination.

Answer 2

A lot of questions... it is a natural product reduced to dry form by removing the fluid it is in (beet juices, sugar cane juices, maple sap). It takes about 40 litres of maple sap to get one litre of maple syrup which can be further reduced.
The darker the cane sugar, the purer it is.

Answer 3

Table sugar (sucrose) comes from plant sources. Two important sugar crops predominate: sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) and sugar beets (Beta vulgaris), in which sugar can account for 12% to 20% of the plant's dry weight. Some minor commercial sugar crops include the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), sorghum (Sorghum vulgare), and the sugar maple (Acer saccharum). In the financial year 2001/2002, worldwide production of sugar amounted to 134.1 million tonnes.

The first production of sugar from sugar-cane took place in India. Alexander the Great's companions reported seeing "honey produced without the intervention of bees" and it remained exotic in Europe until the Arabs started cultivating it in Sicily and Spain. Only after the Crusades did it begin to rival honey as a sweetener in Europe. The Spanish began cultivating sugar-cane in the West Indies in 1506 (and in Cuba in 1523). The Portuguese first cultivated sugar-cane in Brazil in 1532.

Most cane-sugar comes from countries with warm climates, such as Brazil, Pakistan, India, China and Australia. In 2001/2002 developing countries produced over twice as much sugar as developed countries. The greatest quantity of sugar comes from Latin America, the United States, the Caribbean nations, and the Far East.

Beet-sugar comes from regions with cooler climates: northwest and eastern Europe, northern Japan, plus some areas in the United States (including California). In the northern hemisphere, the beet-growing season ends with the start of harvesting around September. Harvesting and processing continues until March in some cases. The availability of processing-plant capacity, and the weather both influence the duration of harvesting and processing - the industry can lay up harvested beet until processed, but frost-damaged beet becomes effectively unprocessable.

Answer 4

the raw material is from a plant called the sugar cane then it is processed but if you taste the raw material there is roughly no difference only the fact that they add all these chemical s in it

Answer 5

White sugar is refined. It comes from sugar cane but the product itself is not natural.

Answer 6

table sugar is the molecule sucrose, it has a crystalline structure and is pure white, it can be extracted from numerous sources in nature as well as synthesized but that would be very difficult and pointless

brown sugar just has other impurities in it

it's digested to glucose, as are other polysaccharides

Answer 7

THE PLANTS ARE CRUSHED ALLOWING JUICES TO FLOW. Then, it is watered down and skimmed to clean up the chunks, boiled till it dries, then the process is repeated several times. you really don't want to know what it all looks like

Answer 8

its made from old woman put through the blender, then boiled in aceton the remove the spice. the reason you use mature women, is that they have already gone through menapause. so the nice is already taken out of them.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

http://www.sucrose.com/learn.html