how process raw sugar

The term "sugar" applies to a wide range of carbohydrates present in many plants. You can identify plants with a high concentration of sugar in their sap by a specific sweet sugary taste. Sugar beet and sugarcane are among the most sugar-rich plants on the planet. Accordingly, sugar refineries process the raw sugar made from these plants into white sugar.

1. Mix raw sugar with the warm, concentrated sugar syrup in a three-gallon container. Raw sugar is essentially sugarcane or sugar beet mixed with lime; any excess water is evaporated through heating.
2. Use the laboratory centrifuge to spin the resulting magma (a pasty mass), separating the syrup from the impurities in the raw sugar. The syrup will filter out while the impurities will remain inside the inner tube of the centrifuge. Impurities may include fine particles of the sugarcane or sugar beet.
3. Put the chalk crystals into the sugar syrup with a spoon. As the crystals grow bigger, they will collect the nonsugars still present in the syrup. Take the crystals out. Now the remaining syrup is free from nonsugars.
4. Add granular activated carbon (GAC), an absorbent used to filter water, to the syrup with a spoon. GAC will remove the yellow-brownish color of the syrup. Take the GAC, now yellow, out. At this stage, the syrup should become white.
5. Boil the resulting syrup until the sugar crystallizes. Then spin the mixture of crystals and the remaining syrup in the laboratory centrifuges to separate the crystals. The white processed sugar that you see on the shelves in the supermarket is now ready.