Manufacturing Process of Molasses
The harvested cane stalks are sent to a processing factory, where they are crushed by a series of large roller-mills. Water is added to improve the juice extraction, the extracted juice is immediately subjected to the processes
1. Liming2. Heating3. Settling |
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The juice is sent to the evaporators where it is concentrated into syrup. The syrup undergoes a progressive series of steps in the vacuum pans to produce industrial raw sugar. Typically repeated 3 times, Molasses is the end product with approximately 2/3 of the crystal seed sugar is dissolved within the syrup, therefore explaining why molasses is extremely thick. The entire refining process takes 20 to 28 hours.
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