How Sugar Is Made | How It's Made
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2022
- Find out how a piece of sugar cane is processed and refined to make sugar.
From season 12 episode 4.
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If you take the juice right from the cane and boil it down the molasses crystallizes and you get a rock hard brown sugar that in Colombia is called Panela. You just take the cane juice and put in a giant metal bowl and stir constantly while it boils and then when it starts boiling you move it to another metal bowl and repeat the process a few times until you're left with a thick syrup which is poured into molds to cool in and that's how Panela is made.
We call that jaggery here in India.
Here in Brazil is rapadura.
sugar stone
That kind of stuff crushed into gravel-sized pieces is sold as Kandis over here and is a special treat for tea (provided one drinks tea with sugar). As a kid I loved to put the pieces into my mouth to slowly dissolve like normal hard candy. Especially the brown ones.
Never would have thought that it was made by a different process than regular sugar until I just read up on it online....
I think that’s called panocha in Mexico
I had no idea that it took this many processes and ingredients to make sugar! How on earth did they discover all of this? Makes me really appreciate Honey!
They are overprocessing it here in order to make the sugar last longer. In reality getting the sugar out of sugar cane really just requires juicing it and then slowly drying the water out until you get brown crystals, it has to be done slowly though or you'll caramelize the sugar.
@@setcheck67 idk since like they gotta sell it all around to people, id probably be more sanitary? idk thats what im thinking
They generally use more steps in order to extract more byproducts too, like molasses and other stuff. But they could simply sell brown sugar as well.
@@yukinagato1573 It's really not necessary as anyone who has juiced sugarcane can tell you. Sugarcane juice is delicious and sugar crystals is just painfully sweet. Crystallized sugarcane juice not only has some actual nutrition, but also tastes really good. The issue is that all those non-sucrose molecules don't last as long as desert-dry pure sucrose. If you don't process sugar it lasts like 3 days without refrigeration before mold and bacteria grow on it.
Hundreds of generations messing around with plants
All the TH-cam industrial videos has taught me that you can solve any problem by spinning it right.
There's some truth to that. Of all the energy produced in the world, over half goes to powering electric motors. For something that does nothing but spin, they have limitless applications.
soo, do i just spin myself till im not sad anymore?
@@power_0007 worth a try!
Will spinning it left get the same results....lol
Ahh. I learned this from Futurama.
I like how they clarified the whole process
I see what you did there.
Sweet sugar pun
Yeah, they made it crystal clear. Pretty sweet.
yes ! they cleared the part of 1) adding Sulphur ,2) sending the sediments to make alcohol ; not manure !
No it's not clarified they didn't say what the thickener is and what it's make of and they also didn't say what is used to bleached it and what it's made of, there is no additional chemical information that is been handed over to us that is why we are all dieing of disease
Growing up in the southern US. Our family had a sugar cane roller press, and cooking pot. My brother and I would go cut the cane, load it on a trailer and bring it to the roller press. My father would feed the cane into the mill. We didn't have a mule to turn the long beam on the roller press, So we had our grandmother on a riding mower to drive in a circle for hours on end. She was fine as long as she had her Lucky Strikes and cup of coffee. The Juice from the press went to the syrup pot where my grandfather would boil and stoke the fire.
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It's from south africa shut up
@@MrPsychoZ Huh,what's ur problem
your grandmother is a hero
I thought sugar in the US was made from corn syrup.
It does make you wonder how we got to this point though? Like how did one person suddenly decide to grind a plant like that into something so widely used in most pastries and other things. It just boggles me how far we've come.
It wasn't sudden. It took fifteen hundred years to go from an obscure plant in New Guinea to a cash crop in Central America. It involved Austronesian navigators, Indian doctors, Egyptian millers, Crusader kings, New World explorers, and Industrial scientists. Many tens of thousands of people - the vast majority of them doomed to obscurity - put thought into to how to improve every part of the process from the genetics and cultivation of the cane to the packaging and distribution of the product.
If you're really interested, there are likely dozens of engaging books packed with stranger-than-fiction stories of how sugar came to be.
first, sugar cane are not the only vegetable that can produce sugar with this method, beet can also, and any other vegetable with thick roots. The grind is only for improving the yield and extract the max. Fundamentaly, it is about boiling and you get the sugar in the water, then some process have been researched to improve the final product
@@LArchieIXI Thanks for the lesson.
I would like processed sugar developed from some cook overcooking a sweet dish or from storing honey , molasses , or cyrup for too long as they will actually coagulate as they dry out over time ; actually have an old honey bottle that is coagulated which i think i prefer that on my biscuits and toast over the fresh bottle of honey next to it . Although the coagulated jar is probably too sweet for my older body and I should probably throw it away .
The recipe is a gift from God. That’s how.
We have a few sugar canes in our garden. Back in elementary, my grandma would give some to me so I could sell them at school and get some extra allowance. They tasted great despite being grown in the city and not in a rural or farm-like location.
A girl brought one for show and tell or something in elementary school. I really wanted to taste it but I was out sick that day. Still haven't tried one.
How much money you make for sell each? I'm curious
@@davidplatt8308 used to sell an 8-10in x 2in stick for around 0.20USD back in the late 2000s.
I was still a kid and had little to no understanding of market prices though, so sugar canes might have been more valuable.
Edit: At the end of the day I got around 6USD. Sometimes the teacher would buy them and give the whole class some.
dudee.. my grandpa and I used to eat tons of sugar canes back then when we grow them in our garden. It was a great time until you realize now you have little sugarcane fibers stuck in your teeth lamo.
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Wtf is this man, this is like a million times more complicated and labor intensive than I would have ever imagined...
😂😂😂
The entire process would be shorter if a lengthy shelf life and the byproducts weren’t a consideration.
The sugar does not taste anything like the Sugarcane. I use to pick sugarcane in the desert Nothing like it! Soooo good!
Where?
Why does it seem like you're faking this and just play a lot of minecraft 😂😂😂🤣🤣
Sugar has been bleached....
In the dessert 😂
Bro I would get 3 stalks and turn it into paper for my book making hobby! That shit works!
Here in Brazil, sugarcane not only makes sugar but also produces clean energy such as ethanol fuel for cars and with biomass more raw material is extracted to make more fuel. Biomass is also used in energy generators for all.
*cleaner energy
Also if you put the shredded sugar for another 10 consecutive rolling presses it turns into sugar gas.
Same in India, also the pulp left at the end can be used to make paper.
Nothing like freshly squeezed Sugarcane juice. Man I miss my early years in Brazil
We still have that in many food markets in Singapore. It’s so delicious and it’s my favourite drink !
I love sugarcane juice
cant believe all this is happening behind the scenes in my crafting menu whenever I make sugar
Watching videos like this makes me realize I can’t imagine designing this process myself, and that’s humbling.
And some human thousands of years ago thought if this. Humbling, indeed.
That is why Chemical Engineers exist 😉
Very few industrial processes like this are ever designed by just one person. It’s hundreds of them, coming one by one to an already-established process and coming up with incremental refinements to improve the end product.
I’m sure there are lots of industries (like semiconductor manufacturing) out there where the processes they use are physically too much for any single human to really understand all of it.
Yes, humbling to say the least. Who comes up with this whole process??
Its just looking at the normal procedure and then expand it. Sometimes mistakes are made in the beginning, but at the end you can automate everything. And this process has grown for years and years. Not in 1 night.
My sergeant in the army was from the gulf coast of the US, and never knew sugar was also made from sugar beets. We passed a pile of sugar beets while on a run outside our base in Germany, and he asked what they were. He didn’t believe me that they were used to make sugar.
Every one has their expertise, that one just happened to not be his.
Yeah they do them in the US,I go to North Dakota and work them,for crystal sugar..big money in it
I am from Texas, and now live in the Philippines. All I have ever seen is sugar cane. I have heard of sugar beets, but do not know where they grow them. 😎
@@freemagicfun I know in the states,its in the Dakota's, Michigan, Colorado and Minnesota, usually colder climates because they do what they call freeze piles to keep them from rotting until the can be refined into Suger.
They must have a massive ant problem
Sugar canes are very juicy and tasty. They taste great raw, much better than just sugar. But you gotta spit out the fibers after you chew them to extract the juices. I see them sold in some asian supermarkets in North America.
One piece of sugar cane should get you one piece of sugar if crafted correctly
Hahahaha so you like one piece
@@gravityrushfan299 no thank she or he talking about minecraft
@@zablnc it's 2023. It's they/them or ze/zir
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Fascinating! Would never have suspected that a centrifuge is used to separate out the molasses!
After watching videos like this just makes you appreciate the huge role automated machines had in the industrial evolution , imagine these steps by hand
I didn't know how sugar was made, but this was not close to what I expected
In the US and a lot of other countries, sugar comes from Sugar Beets and not Sugarcane.
@@VenomStryker I could be way off, but I think colder climates use beets, while warmer places use cane. The US, having both (and lots of corn), has a whole lot of options when it comes to getting fat.
@@181cameron Sagru is not a fat. Sgur is a type of simple carbohdyrte you smooth brain
You bloody fool
You're cute
If you take out the narration I'd say they were making some kind of industrial chemical. Gnarly process.
Uhhh sucrose, the dissacharide with the molecular formula C ₁₂H ₂₂O ₁₁, is an industrial chemical.
Going to a sugar factory like one of these would be any little kids dream.
Like Sally and the Sugar Factory
Nah as a Louisiana native with many factories around the area they smell like they cooking doo doo.
6:06 How 'Poison' Is Made 😮😮
I always thought sugar was made by grinding the core of the cane. This was a very informative video. Thank you for teaching me this
In conclusion, first we start with a plant, then 300 steps and 30 machines later we get sugar!
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wrong. You'd only need a plant and a crafting table.
You need only a plant and a grinding/squeezer simpke machine, then large vat to half boil it. Industry standards demands thorough process
My family and I moved back to Hawaii from California. My Dad had something fun in store for me. He went to a sugar cane field. He planted a cane in our garden. After it grew a bit, he cut me a piece. I chewed on the piece. What an interesting experience!!
Its both delicious and feel rewarding to eat sugarcane.
In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
I don't understand, could you elaborate please?
@@FitraRahimScarface
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The Simpsons actually
@@kyles5513 what about them 😵💫
The molasses left behind still has a lot of uncryatalized sugar.
They ferment it and make alcohol.
Then they distill it partially to get Rum.
Distill some more and you get white rum.
Distill even more and you get cane vodka.
In india, they take cane vodka, which is cheap to produce, then they add some foreign liquor, and barley malt, to make it taste like whiskey.
They sell it as whiskey, which is legally called IMFL (Indian made foreign liquor)
Sell it at Rum
@@natwel1544 cachaça in Brazil
also, cachaça and pinga
Most alcohol in tropical countries are made like that. Using grains or grapes would not work since those cannot be grown in the tropics, and require larger fields and high maintenance.
This is from sugar cane.
There is a few species of beetroot that also produces sugar. The main plant that deals with sugar beetroot is in Wahpeton, ND. It is one of the main businesses that keeps Wahpeton/Breckenridge going. Since there is farmers in the counties surrounding the plant that grow that species of beetroot.
I had no idea the process of making sugar had this many steps! Really interesting.
So many chemicals and different processing of a natural product, no wonder it is so unhealthy. My lovely grandfather used to just juice the cane, and boil it down to crystals. The sugar was put into tea or lemonade which naturally melted it. Just boil and used.
they process it to such an extreme level for mass production because it will last for years this way. when one is consuming it within a matter of weeks or months it's safe to produce it with minimal processing. @@deidradahl2802
Fantastic video. Just goes to show, that Physical Chemistry is everywhere especially in Industry and in Chemical Engineering.
Organic chemistry
Fresh sugar cane juice is tasty tasty tasty 🤤
Yes it is
Just came from Fiji, tons of cane fields
This is a motivational video for stop using white sugar. I knew that it was processed but i never thought that it was THIS MUCH processed.
Greetings from Brazil
Igualmente.
they still didn't show adding Sulphur & other chemicals.
Same here. I'd love to see what it's like using a less processed sugar. I'm not sure if the store-brand brown sugar we find here qualifies, or if it's just white sugar with some molasses re-added.
It's amazing how many stages of production there are😮
I am impressed with the chemists and chemical engineers that worked out this process....
it was centuries of work to get to the crystal white sugar. kinda similar to how white flour was developed.
Indeed
Wow! I never knew it was such a process!
Nice info, thank you for sharing it :)
Plz add subtitles 💜💜💜
just drink the damn sugar cane juice...mix it with coconut juice and you are in heaven
i do this,lol.
or just peel the cane and chew on the insides
@@Jermain-cz4bh we do that in India for centuries.
you mean coconut water? coconut water is already sweetened and delicious
@@pravindahiya719 Brazil also
Nice! Very informative
we in the ARAB country's , specially in JORDAN , EGYPT PALESTINE and more ... Lovvveee this juice 🤍🤍❤️❤️ happy eid every body .
is it bad that i was expecting Hugbee when i clicked this video?
Uk narrator is the best I swear, I like how he adds little things like "to put in your tea"
yeah! i wonder whats his name.
Sounds like Richard Ayoade trying to be low key.
@@calvinramontsho4437 apparently according to Google he’s Anthony Hirst.
So much work wow
wow! now i know how it's made!
A couple weeks ago I turned on discovery channel after a veeeery long time(i haven't used the tv in 7 years or something). And the first thing I saw was this exact episode. And a wave of absolute nostalgia overtook me.
I love this show
I’m having a sudden migraine by watching how sugar is made
I prefer How It's Made. Their explanations don't have as many gaps and the music is better.
In Brazil you just drink the juice very refreshing
what do you use to juice the cane? what kind of juicer?
@@aaroncapricorn5867 it is a grinding/juicing Machine carried on a cart . They run the cane through fold it and repeat it a few times then strain the juice and serve with ice.
My schools used to be sugar cane plantations, so it's really cool to see how sugar is made today
Don't lie
@@DoctorMeatDic ???
All this knowledge is _sweet._
There's nothing better than ice cold cane juice
WTF
@@DoctorMeatDic What?
Never the real thing is it
Im gonna sue the inventor of the sugar cane in the ICC World Court for my 7 cavities
In India, we make five things from sugarcane; without using sulphur or other chemicals
1) Sheeraa 2) Gud 3) Sharkara / Shakkar
4) Khaand 5) Boora.
processes are simple
1) juice is boiled ,wild lady finger plant ( or a particular tree bark ) is added to separate impurities , floating impurities removed & the thick syruppy liquid is SHEERAA.
2) further cooked, almost solid , poured in fist sizes or 2.5 kg chunks to cool , loose moisture & solidify for an hour or two is GUD.
3) SHAKKAR looks like grains of Gud but has a little different taste - don't know the exact process to make.
4) Gud has 1.5-2 cm wheat-brownish layers & in between , there are whitish 2-3 mm layers. if pushed with a spud ( khurpa खुरपा ), along the white layer , it divides in two. The white layer from both parts is peeled using the same spud & separated is called KHAAND. the remaining brown part is again made into Gud balls ( little less sweeter ) & used as suppliment to the cattle feed. (humans also can & do eat it)
5) Khaand boiled in milk , impurities removed (& may be washed, not sure ) & again crystallined (white , small grains ) is called BOORA . ( served to special guests with Ghee , in North India ).
Sugar was actually invented in India only.
These methods were taken to rest of the world
@@commentnahipadhaikar2339 ok? what are you trying to prove?
@@Ivander_K You are welcome.
Thats cool
I have tasted sugarcane before. It tasted like real sugar 😋.
At the mill, trucks empty their load into a receiving table
In Venezuela we make juice with lime and sugar cane and plenty of ice and it's to die for on a hot summer's day, one of my favorite juices
That's lemonade, or in your case, lime-ade.
With the obesity and diabetes rates in many countries it's literally to die for.
@@SweBeach2023 Venezuelans are starving to death thanks to their communist regime so don’t worry, that’s not a problem.
I moved to America when I was 11. At recess one morning I watched all the kids in my class run out to the street and begin breaking apart a stick and putting pieces in their mouths. I was horrified until someone handed me a piece and told me it was sugarcane that had fallen off a truck.
The juiceee!
Great work thank yoU
Thought the lime was used to neutralize the acid used
In my 8th grade science class Last year we got to make sugar from Sugar Beets and sugar from cane.
They are both molecularly identical with a few very slight variations.
This is sweet!
Sweet video!
interesting how so many chemichals are added to sugar, in Costa Rica the process is way simpler and we consume more of what is called raw sugar, the color is brown but it isnt caramel or anything like it its just the sugar before most of the chemical baths...
1. Many chemicals? There's like only +3 used in the process and most of them are just used to purify the sugar and is removed after the process.
2. Your process is simpler because you're not making white/refined sugar. Your sugar is brown for a reason.
3. White, brown, raw sugar have different uses. Contrary to popular belief, despite brown sugar having slightly more minerals than white/refined ones, the difference is so miniscule that they both essentially have the same nutritional effect. Intake of all of type of sugar should be in moderation.
@@al6243 I encourage you to watch documentaries more often but paying attention... they disclosed most of them, im not gonna educate you but you can
@@crimsonstring588 Wow, what an incredibly typical, lazy, pseudointellectual reply. Instead of counterarguing my points and defending your statement, you chose to reply with... that. This reply of yours just perfectly summarized what type of person you are. I thought you were worth arguing with but nah, you're just like those typical FB/YT know-it-alls whose "research" is nothing more than a few FB posts, sensationalists TH-cam videos and blogs, and a few seconds on Google search.
"im not gonna educate you but you can"
- Should have kept your mouth shut in the first place then.
@@crimsonstring588 no matter if you're eating raw, brown or white sugar you're literally only eating glucose and fructose. no chemicals are left behind in the sugar after the process is complete.
@@Insomniac3d Costa Rican here, Funny thing about his comments is that the production process shown in the video is literally from a Costa Rican co- op named "LAICA". That entity has monopoly in the country and must of Costa Rican sugar is processed in its plants. Thus all sugar is produced like that.
That’s a sweet job !
4:09-4:12 Not going to lie, that looks pretty good
My science teacher in 6th grade brought in some sugar cane, and she let me and the rest of the class try some after lunch, and it was delicious.
A thousand kilo bag of sugar. Now that is a ton of sugar...
I'll see myself out.
And here I was thinking that crystalized sugar was just inside the cane itself.
And here I was thinking you had a brain
It was fitting eating some butterfingers while watching this amazing breakdown.
So many steps to turn into table sugar
This is the modern way of processing sugar. I wonder how the process was done in the old days.
About 2,500 years ago people in India had a more simple refining process. At that time they just squeezed out the juice in a mill, then dried out the juice in the sun. But they must have developed some of the methods shown here, because that would have produced brown sugar, and Romans described sugar from India as "white".
ooooh boy, here we go
well they did have many steps to do so, but it was wasnt mechanized, and made by slaves, basically the machines are the same, but they used slaves to do it, so there were horrible injures
My grand parents use to do it at home..I was little and can't remember...looking at this factory am amazed and wonder how they did it at home
Sugarcane juice is the healthy part 😋
@Derek_Dayrik Ja'far Sha'ban aben-Rik _Sparks sugar is a chemical
@Derek_ماليكية جا'فارشا'بان بن ريك _Sparks everything is a chemical, especially your water Dihydrogen Monoxide
Even the juice isn't healthy. You need the fiber of the plant to slow absorption. Drinking any plant juice spikes insulin, do that enough and you get type 2 diabetes.
its still pure sugar
@@bebedor_de_cafe3272 sugarcane juice has actual health benefits unlike table sugar
nice vid!
That's so sweet
Sugar cane taste like the yellow honey dew melon
as horrible as humans can be it never ceases to amaze me how much we are capable of when we work together
Eh... I'd really hate to burst your optimism, so I'll just vaguely imply that inventing the sugar production process, and making its product available to millions, was absolutely not a good development in human history. You could even say it contributed to one of the most shameful periods in "modern" history.
We have this because at some point some person was hungry enough or curious enough to try their luck with eating a stick.
Is this where rick and morty creators got the inspiration for that plombus narration?
Because most of the narration here really does sound like gibberish.
Am I the only one who drinks sugar cane juice it's so delicious 😋
Yes, you're totally the only human on planet earth that drinks sugar cane juice. No one else has ever tasted it. Smh.
@@Mo-fu9sm Every Vietnamese hearing this information:
@@mafuyu5112 every Indian too !
Yeah it is
Don't drink too much though
Never had any, don't think it's possible to buy up here in Sweden.
This is exactly the same process of turning bauxite into alumina powder... I worked at a refinery for 8 years... I'd know this process anywhere... What in the world. Digestion, clarification, precipitation and calcination.
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Fun fact. Battlefield bodies were used to refine sugarbeat. It's one of the reasons we don't find bodies buried on battlefields.
as one legend said:
"EUROOOOOOPE! AAAAAW!!! ❤️"
0:02 *That’s what she said…*
There is an old sugar factory in my area and it has awful stench when you walk nearby
Just give me the sugar cane, plz.
Wait, so one of the steps for making sucrose is "add sucrose"? What the hell?
Crystallization requires nucleation.
@@mattmanyam Right, that much I understand. But, How does one make the sucrose that gets included in the sucrose-making process? Does THAT sucrose also require premade sucrose for nucleation? If so, where did THAT sucrose come from? And so on, until the beginning of time.
Nucleation can initiate around any small "defect"... why not make that "defect" another crystal structure? This isn't a "chicken or egg" situation, but a "hey, we've already got all these ideal nucleation seeds kicking around (that conveniently won't contaminate our product)" situation.
@@mattmanyam Are you a bot, or do you just lack reading comprehension.
@@TheSuperRatt what can I help you with?
I’m never eating processed sugar ever again
I quit sugar a long back.. I mostly use jaggery, rock sugar or honey as sweeteners.
Idk where you’re at, but if you’re in the US, good luck. It’s in everything here.
@@ntmn8444 I live in London it’s easier to avoid here as we now have a tax on sugar, so most manufacturers greatly reduced the amount they use, except for coke they didn’t reduce at all, so a can of coke costs a lot here compared to other brands. Our obesity problem is more due to fat content, KFC et cetera. Sugar is the new tobacco here now and is considered to be almost unacceptable.
At least this process doesn't include any tortured animals
only sticking with the natural stuff that i know how they make, and it's american grown.
high fructose corn syrup
2:50 fashion juice
Toxic chemicals are involved in White Sugar.
Whenever I eat White Sugar, My lips becomes dry and ripping off but it doesn't affect me whenever I eat Jaggery (Brown sugar without separation of the molasses and crystals).
there are no chemicals added into sugar besides lime. unrefined / raw sugar is fugalled a second time to get out the remaining molasses and is washed clean.
Yeah now imma stick with honey or brown sugar for the rest of my life
nice, white sugar with tons of added mollases
Coconut sugar also works.
@@xeroxcopy8183 & without added Sulphur or other chemicals. the 'lot of molasses is NOT harmful.
its the same my bro, they just dont process it
You left out the part where the cane came from... Seeing it loaded in from trucks means you skipped a big portion of the process
the bagasse is crazy
Wow....make a sugar like this....first time i see in my life....good job my friends
I have been living in a town Mandya, known as sugar town where there are 6 sugar producing factories are here. I know this process. At the end of the processing, the sugar is sprayed with bone Ash which turns it to clear white. But the bone is obtained from different places. Animal bones are processed in a separate factory outside the town. Just you go near the bonemeal processing, it smells hell.
Oh. Ok now it makes sense. There’s Mexican sugar that says it’s not made with bone ash. I never understood what that meant. And ewwww.
@@Alusnovalotus only the brown sugar which is not processed by using boneash and brown in colour is good. But people have deep rooted desire for the white. White skin, white sugar, white rice.... etc.
that's lime in the video
I wonder how they prevent ants.