White sugar, a dessert condiment that can be seen everywhere in our daily life, do you know how it came about?Let me reveal this sweet secret to you!
First of all, we need to understand the raw material of white sugar - sugar cane. Sugarcane is a tropical plant, and its stems contain a lot of sap, which is the main raw material for making white sugar. So, how does sugarcane juice turn into white sugar?This process is actually like a magical magic, let's take a look at how this magic works!
Step 1: Squeeze the sugarcane juice. Farmers use a special tool, a sugar cane juicer, to cut the stems of the sugar cane and then use the machine to squeeze the sugar cane juice out. The process is like doing a little "surgery" on the sugar cane to release its delicious juices.
Step 2: Filtration and purification. The sugarcane juice that comes out is cloudy and has a lot of impurities in it. In order to make sugarcane juice purer, we need to filter and purify it. This process is like bathing the sugar cane juice and making it clearer and clearer.
Step 3: Evaporate the water. Filtered and purified sugarcane juice also contains a lot of water, which we need to evaporate to get syrup. The process is like doing a "sauna" on the sugar cane juice to make it more concentrated.
Step 4: Crystallization. After evaporating the water, the syrup also needs to go through a crucial step – crystallization. In this process, the syrup is slowly heated to allow the sugars to crystallize. The process is like doing a "yoga" of the syrup to make it harder.
Step 5: Grinding and screening. The crystallized sugar cubes also need to be ground and screened before they can be turned into the white granulated sugar that we are familiar with. This process is like giving a "beauty" to the sugar cube to make it more delicate and smooth.
The last step: packaging and shipping. The milled and screened sugar is packed into bags of various shapes and sizes, and then shipped to various supermarkets and stores, waiting for us to buy them. This process is like putting on a gorgeous "coat" of white sugar, making it even more attractive.
So, dear friends, when we are enjoying the sweetness brought by white sugar, we might as well think about the story behind this sweetness. Every white sugar has undergone such a magical process to become an indispensable dessert condiment in our lives. The next time you taste white sugar, you might as well imagine this magical process, which may make you cherish this sweet taste even more!