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cane sugar refining
INDIA
Boiling cane sugar syrup being ladled from one vat to the next.
Its temperature is well above the boiling point of water.
The greenish juice in the vat just visible on the right has just been squeezed from sugar cane. It is progressively boiled down and reduced in these vats until it becomes the raw brown sugar being gathered from the cooling pan at the back. The vats are heated from below by burning dried sugar cane waste. (visible in the background, along side waste bricks from a nearby brick kiln.
The raw brown sugar is rolled into tennis ball sized balls . It tastes like demerara sugar. Which is basically what it is. No further refining takes place on this site.
To produce white sugar requires further refining such as spinning the sugar in a centrifuge to remove 'impurities' (basically the mollases that gives it taste and colour)
Most brown sugar sold is actually made from refined white sugar with the mollases added again! Ironically you can buy the natural raw brown sugar but normally at a premium price!
Near Bhognipur, Uttar Pradesh India
cane sugar refining
INDIA
Boiling cane sugar syrup being ladled from one vat to the next.
Its temperature is well above the boiling point of water.
The greenish juice in the vat just visible on the right has just been squeezed from sugar cane. It is progressively boiled down and reduced in these vats until it becomes the raw brown sugar being gathered from the cooling pan at the back. The vats are heated from below by burning dried sugar cane waste. (visible in the background, along side waste bricks from a nearby brick kiln.
The raw brown sugar is rolled into tennis ball sized balls . It tastes like demerara sugar. Which is basically what it is. No further refining takes place on this site.
To produce white sugar requires further refining such as spinning the sugar in a centrifuge to remove 'impurities' (basically the mollases that gives it taste and colour)
Most brown sugar sold is actually made from refined white sugar with the mollases added again! Ironically you can buy the natural raw brown sugar but normally at a premium price!
Near Bhognipur, Uttar Pradesh India