CANE SUGAR
Sugarcane is a sweet substance extracted from sugar cane. After extraction, the cane sugar crystallizes, giving rise to a color ranging from blond to brown, due to certain pigments present in the cane. To become white, brown cane sugar is melted and stripped of dyes in a refinery without chemical modification. Only white cane sugar can be described as "refined". Brown cane sugar is 95% to 98% sugar (sucrose) while white cane sugar (after refining) contains more than 99.7% sucrose. The rest is traces of water, minerals and organic matter.
In terms of nutritional content, brown sugar contains forty times more minerals than beet sugar and about twenty times more minerals than refined cane sugar.
The extraction of cane sugar is identical to that of sugar beet, except for the first stage where the sugar cane juice is extracted by grinding, while the beet is extracted by diffusion. On entering a machine, the canes are cut into small pieces and then pressed and ground in several mills. Separated from bagasse (crushed sugar cane), the cane juice obtained contains 80 to 85% of water, 10 to 20% of sugar and 0.7 to 3% of organic and inorganic compounds.
The syrup obtained after spinning and crystallization is also called "mother liquor", it is loaded with sugar, it is then re-cooked and gives a new more colorful and less pure sugar, then the rest of the syrup is reintroduced into a new cycle to give a last portion of sugar that is usually brown and full of impurities (brown sugar), and a viscous and colorful final syrup called molasses.
We supply high quality sugar from Brazil and sometimes from the United States. Among the different types of cane sugar we supply are White / Refined ICUMSA 45, Brown Sugar ICUMSA 42, White / Crystal ICUMSA 150, Raw Brown ICUMSA 600-1200 and others. Please, contact us today for quotes, specifications, prices, payment terms and more.
