Refined sugar: ways to get

Refined sugar, unlike simple granulated sugar, has a high degree of purification. In the trade, sugar producers are supplied in various forms: powder, sand or pressed. The technology by which refined sugar is obtained is uncomplicated, raw beet or cane material is used as a raw material. Finished products from both varieties of the original substance to taste almost the same, but the cost price is different. The production of sugar-refined sugar from cane raw materials is more expensive and takes longer.

The essence of the process of obtaining a purified product is to prepare a saturated solution, which is then converted to a syrup for further adsorption and thorough filtration. After the received mass is placed in the vacuum device, where it is brought to the state of complete condensation. In order for it to take on a snow-white color, it is treated with a suspension of ultramarine (food color).

In the next step, sugar refined sugar can be produced in two ways, depending on the method of obtaining the final product - cast or pressed. The first option is more expensive and complicated. At it sugar-refined sugar is received, pouring mass (utfel) into specialized forms, where it slowly solidifies. To remove treacle from above pour solution of purified sugar, this procedure is repeated three to four times. As a result, the finished product is removed from the molds and divided into cubes of the required size. It is much easier and cheaper to get refined sugar when pressed, when the syrup bleaching takes place in a special centrifuge. The substance obtained as a result of the operation is pressed and dried, then separating the solid mass into parallelepipeds.

As a rule, the evaluation of the quality of the product is performed organoleptically, by which the taste, smell, color, and transparency of the solution is determined. The color of the refined substance must be white, without spots and clean, can be a bluish tinge. The taste is sweet, without foreign tastes, the same applies to the smell. The solution should not have impurities, sediment and be transparent or slightly opalescent. Among the physico-chemical properties, the following are considered to be the most important:

- mass shares of sucrose, moisture, reducing substances;

- content of ferroimpurities;

- chromaticity;

- Fortress.

Also important are the various microbiological characteristics: yeast, pathogenic microorganisms, mold fungi, MAFAM, CGB3. The content of pesticides (phostoxin, hexachlorane) and toxic substances (arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, copper, zinc) is monitored. Pack the product in the form of sand and powder in bags, and lump sugar - in boxes or individual bags (2 pieces per sub-parchment and artistic wrapper).

Transportation and storage of refined sugar is carried out in containers or in covered vehicles. Wagons, holds, containers should not have cracks and be dry, the roof should not allow moisture, doors and hatches - tightly closed. The product should be kept at a humidity of not more than 70% and a temperature of no higher than 40 ° C, necessarily separate from other substances and materials.