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If you ever want a classroom presentation please contact us at and we will do our best to help you learn about the sweeetest crop in Alberta. At the factory, they use sugar from sugar beets to make a few important products including sugar, molasses, and livestock feed.
Just make sure to look for a black stamp on the bag that starts with the number This means it contains sugar made from sugar beets. The sugar is also used to make a variety of other products including baked goods, candies, pop, and alcohol.
Check out Back 40 Distillery who utilizes absugar22 in their vodka. New to the distillery scene is Skunkworks Distillery in Calgary. Skunkworks uses absugar22 in the production of their Moonshine. If you want to avoid all refined sugars, there are alternatives such as sucanat and turbinado sugar, which are not filtered with bone char. Additionally, beet sugar — though normally refined — never involves the use of bone char.
Skip to content Sweeteners in Baking. Previous: Sugar Sucrose. Next: Forms of Sugar Used in the Bakeshop. Share This Book Share on Twitter. The cossettes are mixed with juice and pumped to the extraction tower. The sugar is extracted from the cossettes by diffusion. The sugar-containing juice leaves the bottom of the tower while the exhausted cossettes now called pulp and containing less than 0.
The raw juice from the extraction must first be purified before the sugar can be crystallized. This is done using lime and carbon dioxide gas. Impurities present in the juice originating with the sugar beets are precipitated by the lime and carbon dioxide gas and then removed by filtration.
After purification, the juice is concentrated to remove water and then boiled in large vacuum pans. We have a dedicated facility located in Scarborough ON, to handle dry blending of ingredients and finished products. Cane sugar and beet sugar refining processes produce two very unique by-products. Blackstrap molasses is the by-product from the cane sugar refining process. Beet molasses is a non-food grade by-product which is sold for production of yeast and also a livestock feed supplement.
Dried Molassed Beet Pulp is a co-product of the sugar beet refining process and provides a useful energy food for a wide range of livestock. About Sugar What is sugar? Cane Refining Process Before it comes to Canada, sugar cane is partially refined into raw sugar at mills operated near the sugar fields.
Raw Sugar After it is harvested sugar cane is cut and crushed to extract the juice. Cleaning Raw sugar is melted and filtered to become liquor that is then purified and decolourised to remove plant residues, waxes and soil residues. Filtering The clarified sugar liquor is now passed through filters to remove suspended solids and remaining colour.
Crystallisation A majority of the water is evaporated from the sugar liquor, followed by boiling in large vacuum pans. Drying Centrifugals separate the crystals of sugar from the syrup. Packaging The sugar is now ready to be packed in various sizes, from large 1 tonne industrial bags or small 2 kg paper bags that you find at the grocery store.
The sugar beet factory Rogers Sugar is located in Taber, Alberta. Lantic Inc. Prior to this merger, each facility experienced extensive transformations, which resulted in the successful establishment of Lantic Inc.
For company contact information and locations, click here. Lawrence River in Over the years, the building and processing facilities were frequently upgraded. In , Lantic Sugar began a program of diversification and rationalization that concluded with the purchase of St.
Lawrence Sugar in Montreal in In , Lantic consolidated its refining operations in Montreal and closed the Saint John plant. Also see: History of the Montreal Refinery.
Lantic Sugar, Montreal, Refinery Established in Rogers Sugar was established in by the entrepreneurial B.
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