Site icon Foodelphi.com

Processing Lines “Sugar” Sugar Cane ( Hector Garza )

www.foodelphi.com

www.foodelphi.com

“Sugar” Sugar cane

Introduction

What we call sugar, the chemist knows as ‘sucrose’, one of the family of sugars otherwise known as saccharides in the grouping called carbohydrates Sucrose, C12H22O11, is a disaccharide, a condensation molecule made up of two glucose molecules The process whereby plants make sugars is photosynthesis.
12 CO2 + 11 H2 O = C12 H22 O11 + 12 O2
carbon dioxide + water = sucrose + oxygen

Sugar cane process

The sugar process is divided

1. Entry or transportation of the sugar cane
2. Milling
3. Clarification
4. Evaporation
5. Crystallization
6. Separation
7. Refining
8. Drying
9. Storage

Exit mobile version