What is sugar made of?

The definition of white sugar is sucrose crystals made from sugarcane or beet by extracting sugar juice, washing, boiling crystallization, honey separation and other processes.

Soft white sugar is powder, suitable for cooking, and its sweetness is similar to that of white sugar. There are two kinds of fudge: refined fudge and native fudge. The former has white color, fine and soft particles and excellent quality; The latter is slightly yellow and dark, with poor quality.

Extended data:

The color value of white sugar increases during storage because various trace impurities contained in it are oxidized by air, and the degree of increase mainly depends on the types and quantities of these impurities and the temperature of storage environment. In the process of sugar production, a lot of impurities were removed in the process of clarification and crystallization, but in the end, a small amount of pigments and substances that can form pigments were brought in, mainly phenols, iron, amino nitrogen, dextran and so on.

Phenolic substances are the most important factors affecting the color and color price of white sugar. Generally, the content is between15 and 60 ppm, which is brought in by sugarcane juice. Phenols are easy to be oxidized and undergo polycondensation reaction, resulting in dark polymer substances from yellow to brownish red.

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