What is sugar made of?

Question 1: What is sugar made of? Beets are produced in the north and sugar cane in the south. Then the liquid they squeeze out is purified, air-dried and crushed into white sugar.

Question 2: What are white sugar and brown sugar made of? White sugar is refined sugar made from molasses squeezed from sugarcane and sugar beet. Brown sugar usually refers to finished sugar and honey, and generally refers to sugar and honey made from sugarcane after simple treatment, concentration and pressing.

Question 3: What are white sugar and brown sugar made of? There are brown sugar and white sugar for daily consumption. Although they are all extracted from sugar cane or sugar beet, their pharmacological effects are quite different due to different production processes. The production process of brown sugar is relatively simple, and it is unrefined crude sugar. Because it has not been refined, riboflavin, carotene and trace elements such as calcium, iron, manganese and zinc are beyond the reach of white sugar. In the past, brown sugar was the main tonic for pregnant women. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar is warm and has the functions of benefiting qi and nourishing blood, invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach, expelling wind and cold, relieving pain and spasm, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. However, a proper amount of brown sugar supplementation after delivery can improve fatigue, chills, pain, lochia, backache and slight abdominal pain caused by excessive blood loss, excessive physical and energy consumption and blood stasis. If the stomach is cold, painful and vomiting, it can be solved by boiling water with brown sugar and ginger. Menstrual pain can be solved by decocting brown sugar and Folium Artemisiae Argyi (common dosage: 10g). Folk also often use brown sugar boiled eggs to treat female blood deficiency or irregular menstruation.

White sugar is made by decolorizing brown sugar, which is cool in nature and has the functions of moistening lung, promoting fluid production, tonifying middle energizer, detoxifying and inhibiting bacteria. Clinically, it is often used to treat dry cough without phlegm caused by lung yin deficiency, or abdominal pain caused by spleen deficiency and qi deficiency. Spring and autumn are windy and dry, and the lungs are fine and dirty, which is the most vulnerable to evil. At this time, adding sugar to drinking water can play a role in nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. The epigastric discomfort caused by eating fish and crabs can be solved by drinking thick white sugar water. High concentration of sugar can change the ratio of active ingredients to water in bacterial cells, thus inhibiting and killing bacteria. Wipe the purulent wound clean and then coat it with white sugar, which can prevent further infection and promote wound healing.

Although sugar is a good medicine, improper consumption can also lead to many diseases. Brown sugar contains many impurities, which can be directly ingested into the stomach of vulnerable people, so it should be cooked and eaten, not taken. Excessive consumption can also lead to obesity or dental caries.

Question 4: How to make sugar crystals? Pour a small glass of water into the pot and heat it with low heat. Gradually add sucrose (about two cups). When the aqueous solution of sugar reaches saturation and boils, pour the liquid into the glass. Keep the glass in the shade for a few days, and crystals will form. If there is a vertical line in the solution, the crystal will grow in a beautiful "chandelier" style. Your practice is unscientific, and you can only form suspension and produce precipitation.

Question 5: Was there any white sugar in ancient times? How did you do that? Do you have any skills? In ancient times, it was mainly sucrose, but it was basically white sugar.

White granulated sugar

White sugar and soft sugar are both called white sugar, and the sucrose content is generally above 95%. White sugar is uniform and neat, hard, loose and dry, without impurities. It is the purest variety with the most sucrose in sugar, and it is also an easy-to-preserve sugar.

According to the achievements of modern archaeology, as early as prehistoric times, human beings already knew how to obtain sweet foods from natural substances, such as honey and fresh fruits, but these sweet foods can only be regarded as natural substances and cannot be used as processed products of human beings. With the progress of the times and the development of society, the development of human sugar industry has basically experienced three stages: early sugar production, manual sugar production and mechanized sugar production. This is the general trend of sugar industry development in the world, and China is a typical country of this general trend. The early sugar-making process originated very early in China. According to textual research, as early as the end of Shang Dynasty, our ancestors knew that sweets were made of grains. There is a poem "Joo Won?, pansy is in full bloom" in the Book of Songs of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which means that in the era of the ancient grandfather of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou people moved westward to Joo Won? (now Qishan, Shaanxi Province), where the land was very fertile and even wild vegetables were as sweet as glutinous rice. According to this, we can know that our ancestors knew this kind of thing at least before the Western Zhou Dynasty. The so-called maltose is a kind of starch sugar made from grain, which is now commonly known as maltose, also known as maltose. Historical facts have proved that maltose, as a sweet food, has been widely eaten long before sucrose appeared. The production of caramel is a sticky product formed by mixing the starch of grain with malt, saccharifying and boiling, which is widely circulated among the people. There are many records about diet making in the history books from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, including The Book of Qi Yaomin written by Jia Sixie in the Northern Wei Dynasty? Feeding is the most detailed description. Even today, some family workshops still use ancient traditional techniques to produce and supply the market.

In sweets, sucrose is more important than maltose. There are two cradles of sucrose in the world. One is ancient India, which can be known from the ancient book Vedas. Another place is ancient China. The earliest written materials can be found in "Evocation of Soul" written by the patriotic poet Qu Yuan (some people think it is Song Yu) at the end of the Warring States Period. There is a saying that "soft-shelled turtle shoots mutton, and there is some Zhejiang pulp", which means that when cooking soft-shelled turtle and fried mutton, some "Zhejiang pulp" should be sprinkled for seasoning. The so-called Zhejiang pulp refers to the sweet juice squeezed from sugar cane, so we can think that at least at the end of the Warring States period, not only sugar cane was planted in Chu State in the south, but people were able to know how to squeeze the sweet juice as seasoning when cooking food. Because the poem "Evocation" describes the common folk custom and etiquette of evocation, and at the same time describes the common folk food such as rice, wheat, chicken and cattle, which shows that the extraction and consumption of sugarcane products were quite common at that time.

By the Western Han Dynasty, the application of sugarcane products had further developed. Liu Xin's Miscellanies of Xijing once mentioned that "the king of Fujian and Yue offered the fifth kind of nectar". The so-called manna refers to a solid product made of sugarcane, which should be a technological progress compared with the liquid "Zhejiang" in the late Warring States period. Gaudi refers to Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty. It can be seen that sucrose products in the early Han Dynasty were relatively rare, otherwise they would not be presented to the emperor as a tribute. Of course, pulp still existed in the Han Dynasty, but its function improved. In November of the fifth year of Ding Yuan (before 1 12), Dan was born in Xinsi Shuo, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty offered sacrifices in Ganquan Palace, which made dozens of people such as Sima Xiangru compose poems and praise. * * * Nineteen times of "Song of Sacrifice to the Suburb" were published, including the sentence "Too Zun Zhe Jiang Analyze Mao Chao". Sugarcane juice can be used to eliminate the residual wine in your morning. Therefore, at the latest in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, people used sugarcane juice, which is not only a commonly used seasoning food, but also often used for hangover relief.

It's this one, too, whose representative work "Zi Xu Fu" describes the richness of Chu's products, and there is also a literal expression of "T He", in which "T He" is an ancient banana, which is beyond the scope of this paper, and "Zhu Zhe" is sugarcane. This shows that in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty when Sima Xiangru was alive, the consumption of sugarcane juice has become a common phenomenon among the upper class.

We can think that during the period of Emperor Wu of the Middle Western Han Dynasty, the production and consumption of sucrose should be quite common, not only in Sima Xiangru's prose, but also in other people of the same era, such as Dong Fangshuo's "Strange Books": "Is there one in the South? Forest >>

Question 6: What is the price of sugar, how to make it and what is it made of? White sugar is extracted from sugarcane.

Method (technology) for sugar production from sugarcane: 1. Sugarcane pretreatment before sugarcane pressing is mainly to chop and tear sugarcane by crushing equipment, so that sugarcane can be fully crushed, so that the crusher can harvest more impurities such as sediment and stones, and can only be crushed after cleaning and sand production.

2. After the pressed sugarcane enters the compressor unit, the sugar is extracted through repeated pressing and infiltration, which is the main part of the whole compression section. After sugarcane is pressed, the juice and bagasse should be transported separately, so that the pressing work can be carried out normally. The mixed juice contains more sugarcane chips, which should be separated by curved plugs, and the recovered sugarcane chips should be sent back to the sugarcane press for treatment.

3. The mixed juice of sugarcane juice cleaning and juice taking section is dark green turbid liquid, the main component is sucrose, and it also contains insoluble non-sugar impurities.

Such as chlorophyll, sugarcane crumbs, soil and other suspended substances, as well as various soluble non-sugar impurities such as organic salts, colloidal substances and inorganic salts. Generally, the cleaning method is to heat the mixed juice, add chemicals to precipitate impurities, and then separate the precipitate to obtain clear and transparent juice with low chroma.

Question 7: How did brown sugar come from? What is it made of? What's the difference with sugar? Brown sugar is made from sugar cane, sugar beet, etc. through juicing and other processes. White sugar is the product of refined processing of brown sugar, which mainly removes pigments and impurities from brown sugar. Comparatively speaking, the nutritional value of brown sugar is higher than that of white sugar.

Question 8: What is the process of making white sugar? China is one of the earliest countries in the world to make sugar from sugarcane, with a history of more than 2,000 years. Almost all sugar is composed of sucrose, and the sucrose content of sugar is generally above 95%. All plants with high sucrose content can be used as raw materials for sugar production.

At present, the main raw materials of sugar in the world are sugarcane and beet. Although the raw materials for sugar production are different, there is no difference in quality between sucrose and beet sugar, and the national standard for white sugar is also applicable to them.

Sugar juice is extracted from sugarcane and beet in the factory, and after boiling and concentration, sugar crystals are separated from the center, called crude sugar (or raw sugar), which is light brown. After refining, crude sugar has become white sugar for daily consumption. Besides sugarcane and beet, white sugar can also be processed from sugar with high sucrose content such as raw sugar and coarse sugar.

At present, there are three kinds of sugar making methods or clarification methods adopted by countries all over the world, namely lime method, sulfurous acid method and carbonic acid method. Lime method can only produce coarse sugar with dark color, while sulfite method can produce white sugar for direct consumption (the produced white sugar is called sulfide sugar). Although the whiteness and sugar yield of white sugar produced by sulfurous acid method are worse than that by carbonic acid method, sulfurous acid method is still widely used in large, medium and small sugarcane sugar factories in China because of its advantages such as short technological process, less equipment and less clarifier. In foreign countries, in recent ten years, with the increase of refined sugar consumption, many sugar factories using sulfurous acid method have successively changed to lime method to re-dissolve and refine the produced crude sugar. However, in developing countries, sulfurous acid method still occupies an important position. The method of clarifying sugarcane juice with lime and carbon dioxide is called carbonation (the sugar produced is called carbonated sugar). Carbonated fabia sulfuric acid method can remove more non-sugar substances, and the total recovery rate is higher. The finished sugar has high purity and low color value, and can be stored for a long time without discoloration. However, the carbonation method also has some disadvantages, such as complex technological process and more mechanical equipment; It also consumes a lot of lime and carbon dioxide, so the production cost is higher. Especially in the areas where sugar factories are far away from limestone producing areas, the popularization of carbonation method is limited to some extent.

White rock candy is made of dissolved white sugar through purification and natural crystallization. White rock sugar has the characteristics of sweetness, moistening lung and crystal clear, and is suitable for stews, nourishing drinks and so on.

Question 9: What is sugar made of? Sugar is made of sugar cane, which is generally harmless to the body. But eating too much will not only lead to tooth decay, but also cause diabetes, obesity and hair loss.

Question 10: What are brown sugar and white sugar made of? What is the difference? Sugar can be divided into sucrose and beet sugar. According to the nature of sugar, there can be sucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose and lactose, among which fructose is the sweetest, followed by sucrose, glucose is not too sweet, and maltose and lactose are less sweet. Ordinary sucrose must be digested after eating, and then it can be converted into glucose for human absorption, and glucose can be directly absorbed, so it is a good nutrient for children, the elderly and patients. From commodity to commodity, sugar can be divided into white sugar, brown sugar, granulated sugar, brown sugar, rock sugar, glucose and maltose. Brown sugar is a kind of sugar containing honey. In the process of producing sugar from sugarcane, two products can be produced, granulated sugar and molasses. When producing brown sugar, molasses is not removed, so brown sugar is actually a mixture of sugar and molasses. Molasses absorb water easily, and brown sugar is often caked by moisture when put in a bottle. This is why caking is a big disadvantage of brown sugar and it is very inconvenient to use. White sugar is made by separating molasses from brown sugar and then decoloring and crystallizing. Sugar with larger particles is called granulated sugar. Brown sugar is made of common brown sugar after coloring. Although the color is similar to brown sugar, it does not contain molasses and will not get wet, which is different from brown sugar. The advantages of brown sugar are bright color and large particles. Rock candy is made by recrystallization of sucrose. Its crystal is good and large, and its nutritional price is relatively high. The square candy made of white sugar bonded together is a special commodity called sugar cube. Maltose, also known as maltose, is made from barley malt. Like glucose, it is easily absorbed by the human body.