How Do I Make Refined Sugar

The ‘raw’ sugar from the mill arrives at the refinery where it is mixed with hot syrup to soften the hard molasses coating on the outside of the sugar. Once mixed the syrup is put through a centrifuge which removes 50% of the colour from the raw sugar and is then melted into a liquor.

How do they make refined white sugar?

To manufacture table sugar from sugarcane, sugarcane stalks are crushed to separate the juice from the pulp. The juice is processed and heated to crystalize, and is then filtered and bleached with bone char, which results in sugar’s pristine white color.

How do you make industrial sugar?

Sugar is produced in two principal ways, from beet or cane. In beet production sugar is extracted or leached from sliced sugar beets (cossettes), after which juice is purified through a series of milk of lime and CO2 process steps. The filtered juice is evaporated (thickened) and sugar is crystallized from it.