sugar manufacturing stages

sugar manufacturing

Sugar belongs to the category of foods known as carbohydrates, and one of the most famous is dietary sugar. Sugar is produced through the process of photosynthesis by which food is made in plants, and sugar is a carbohydrate consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.

   Sugar is extracted from sugar cane and beets, and is used in many foods and sweets, as it gives a sweet taste to food, as well as providing energy to the body, and is used as a preservative to help preserve the color of its various types of jam, but care must be taken to increase sugar intake because it leads to weight gain as well as many health ailments, some of which can be dangerous.

sugar manufacturing stages

Stages of manufacturing sugar from beets

• Take beets to sugar mills.

•    Exclude damaged beets that have bruises or scratches.

•    Wash the beets to make sure there are no stones or dirt that could stick to them.

•    Cut the beets into thin slices until the pulp appears.

•    Put thin slices of beets in water, the temperature of which should be 70 ° C.

• After some time, the beet slices are placed in water, a pale yellow juice of a small thickness appears. It should be boiled in a quantity of water until it thickens and acquires a beautiful color.

•    The condensed juice is placed in huge boiling pumps to start the stage of displaying the sugar crystals, then these crystals are separated from the formed liquid by a special centrifuge. 

•    The liquid from the separation process is boiled and recondensed to extract as much sugar as possible.

Stages of manufacturing sugar from sugar cane

• The sugarcane sticks are collected and shipped to the factory.

•      Sugarcane stalks are squeezed through specialized machines to extract the liquid

•  juice, which is green in color and sweet in taste.

• The liquid is filtered from impurities and some types of acids are added to it.

•      The process of filtering and condensing the juice begins by boiling it until it crystallizes.

• Purify the substance obtained by boiling, then wash and dry again.

• The resulting crystals are sieved after drying and poured into molds.

•      Large molds are crushed to obtain fine sugar, or cut into squares.

types of sugar

• Brown sugar: It is a brownish-black solution, produced by refining cane sugar and beet sugar.

•      Sugar cane: It is made from sugar cane.

• Fruit sugar: It is the sugar that is naturally found in fruits.

•      Barley sugar: It is obtained from barley.

•      Beet sugar: obtained from the fruits of the beet.

• Castor sugar: It is a group of white sugar crystals.

• Date sugar: obtained from dates.