Cane or Beet? The Journey of Your Sugar
In short: Sugar from both sugarcane and sugar beet undergoes similar milling and refining processes to produce chemically identical sucrose crystals.
A 1:36 short film in the series “Journey of a Thing”.
Sources used in this film: Queensland University of Technology – Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy, “Sugar milling - Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy”; Academia.edu, “Raw sugar undergoes purification at refineries, removing molasses through centrifugation and filtrat”; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), “Sucrose”; Academia.edu, “SUGAR REFINING”.
Sources used in this film
- Queensland University of Technology – Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy — Sugar milling - Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy · View →
- Academia.edu — Raw sugar undergoes purification at refineries, removing molasses through centrifugation and filtrat · View →
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) — Sucrose · View →
- Academia.edu — SUGAR REFINING · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Queensland University of Technology – Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy: Sugar milling - Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy
- Also: Academia.edu: Raw sugar undergoes purification at refineries, removing molasses through centrifugation and filtrat
- Also: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): Sucrose
- Also: Academia.edu: SUGAR REFINING
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