How is sugar made?!
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Answers: From sugar cane.
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Sugar is made by some plants to store energy that they don't need straight away, rather like animals make fat. People like sugar for its sweetness and its energy so some of these plants are grown commercially to extract the sugar:
what type of the sugar?
it comes from sugar cane.
A plant and is ground up and purified to make it white,
real sugar is brown
Well, it all starts with the sweat of virgins! Its collected using kittens as sponges, placed in a conical flask and then brought to the boil. The tears of squirels is then added to act as a catalyst, causes a crystaline structure to be left behind in the base of the flask! This is then ground up, and then you have sugar!!!
cane. I used to work in the fields.
From either sugar beat or sugar cane.
Sugar is made from either Sugar Cane, or Sugar Beet.. these are the 2 most common sources of the sugar that you put in drinks etc... or Table Sugar as it is commonly called...
See the link below to tell you all you need to know...
The process whereby plants make sugars is photosynthesis. The plant takes in carbon dioxide from the air though pores in its leaves and absorbs water through its roots. These are combined to make sugar using energy from the sun and with the help of a substance called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is green which allows it to absorb the sun's energy more readily and which, of course, gives the plants' leaves their green colour. The reaction of photosynthesis can be written as the following chemical equation when sucrose is being made:
12 CO2 + 11 H2 O = C12 H22 O11 + 12 O2
carbon dioxide + water = sucrose + oxygen
This shows that oxygen is given off during the process of photosynthesis.
Historically, sugar was only produced from sugar cane and then only in relatively small quantities. This resulted in it being considered a great luxury, particularly in Europe where cane could not be grown. The history of man and sugar is a subject in its own right but suffice to say that, even today, it isn't easy to ship food quality sugar across the world so a high proportion of cane sugar is made in two stages. Raw sugar is made where the sugar cane grows and white sugar is made from the raw sugar in the country where it is needed. Beet sugar is easier to purify and most is grown where it is needed so white sugar is made in only one stage.
I will tell you how sugar is made here in Northern Nigeria. We call that type of sugar Brown Sugar. In fact it is brownish as a final product. There is a machine made from India that a horse is use to turn the machine in order to squeeze the sugar cane to get the liquid. When that is done liquid is the heated in a iron container, in that process the dirt will be coming up and a implement is used to remove that dirt until that liquid becomes thicker; its then that a stick is use to stir it until it becomes solid. It is then put in a small container, as a final product.
All those who have said "Sugar Cane" have forgotten the English Sugar Beet ! ! !
Sugar cane gets crushed, this makes a juice that then gets screened for impuritys and heated. Then the juice gets a lime treatment and heated even furthur to clear it up.The juice is then allowed to cool and gets concentrated in an evaporator.It is furthur purified and then boiled till it starts forming crystals. The crystals are then seperated by centrifuge.The sugar is dryed and packed for shipping. any remaining juice has been transformed into molasses.An interesting note: An old friend of mine that was raised near a milling operation told me he and his friends used to make a product called Cane-skimming beer. The recipe of which I do not know was passed on to him by his family which were decendants of slaves. The poorest of the poor still managed to have a brew or two. Even back in slavery times. He would tell me about some the most fun times and most aweful headaches! I can only imagine.
Well I can tell you that when I was small I had an aunt and uncle who had a huge tobacco,cotton,and sugar cane plantation and I can remember them making sugar and cane syrup. Pleas remember this was 45 years ago (ice age). But they had a huge vat and they would cut the sugar cane and run it through a grinder of some type into the vat that had a fire under it to heat the product and a mule that had some type of harness that was strapped to a paddle that would stir the product as the mule walked around and round the vat. As the product heated it made a liquid which turned into a syrup (cane syrup) and as it cooked it would form large chunks of sugar crystals on the side of the vat. These would be brown in color and oh so good. after this process everything was strained to separate the by product from the syrup and the syrup from the sugar. What they did after that to process the sugar I have no idea as I would be sick from eating to much of the sugar crystals and looking for some place to be sick.