sugar refining
Purifying cane crystals
Sugar refining is the industrial process of purifying raw sugar—removing molasses, impurities, and color to produce white crystalline sugar.
Raw sugar from cane or beet processing arrives brown and coarse; refining involves dissolving, filtering, and recrystallizing it.
The old refinery processed thousands of tons of raw sugar annually.
- molassesSyrup from cane processing
- cane juiceExtracted sugarcane liquid
- sugarcaneSucrose-yielding tropical grass
- crystallizationForming ordered solid structure
- evaporationLiquid turning to gas
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