2007-04-08 07:51:17 · 17 answers · asked by dickwad 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Sugar is usually "Bleached" so to speak. That's why it is healthier to use "RAW" or Cane Sugar. They are also more Flavorful !!!!
2007-04-08 07:59:26 · answer #1 · answered by connoiseur444 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Raw sugar is a coarse, brown, sticky variety made by simply boiling down whole cane juice and it too is a wholesome food.
Milling white sugar, consists of raw sugar where the production process does not remove coloured impurities, but rather bleaches them white by exposure to sulphur dioxide.
The bleach makes them white.
2007-04-08 15:05:23 · answer #2 · answered by Johnson 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because all the "impurities," a.k.a. molasses, has been removed. Brown sugar is white sugar with molasses added back in, but it used to be unprocessed sugar. Take a look at the brown sugar packets at Starbucks: Sugar In The Raw!!
2007-04-08 14:59:43 · answer #3 · answered by saralizzy1981 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's original color is brown, and comes from sugar canes. The sugar is processed, and then, for a once higher social class, has been bleached to cater to that once, and now demanding group of citizens and customer, that only will use this product, stripped of it's original color, and natural molasses taste and luster.
2007-04-08 15:26:27 · answer #4 · answered by HotInTX 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pure sugar is colorless - like lots of other things. Break anything colorless up into lots of little solid pieces, and it reflects light back at you without absorbing any - so it looks white. (example: water is colorless, but snow is white).
2007-04-08 15:45:26 · answer #5 · answered by James F 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on its source.
Cane sugar is brown
Beet sugar is white.
Try this link: http://www.sucrose.com/learn.html
2007-04-08 16:01:40 · answer #6 · answered by unofornaio 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There really are a number of ways to get surgar white from bleeching to removing the colored impurities.
check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar
2007-04-08 15:03:14 · answer #7 · answered by Yoho 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because its been processed to appeal to (supposed) western tastes, the same applies to rice and flour (thus bread).
2007-04-11 10:25:27 · answer #8 · answered by Snake eyes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bleach. But it ensures that it doesn't colour other foods that it's added to.
2007-04-08 15:09:33 · answer #9 · answered by Rex 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not naturally,it's brown.Sugar is refined to make it white.The reason I think is that it will not discolour things it is put in or mixed with.
2007-04-08 15:01:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋