Why the Need for a Greener Sugar Alternative?
Sugar cane undergoes a lot of processes to achieve the final product. The processes even make use of harmful chemicals that can harm the environment. Sugar cane processing requires burning tons of sugar cane itself. This results in high emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Although the sugar cane plants absorb carbon dioxide, this cannot offset the emissions from the burning of the sugar cane and the machinery used to harvest and process it. Unrefined sugar crystals are originally brown because it contains molasses. Those crystals are then bleached with chemicals like phosphoric acid or sulphur dioxide to get the appearance of white sugar. It then undergoes more drying and vacuuming process to achieve better quality. A lot of manufacturing processes means that it requires more energy in processing. If you would think that brown sugar is better because it is not bleached, think again. It is much worse because it is just the regular white bleached sugar with the removed molasse
Sugar cane undergoes a lot of processes to achieve the final product. The processes even make use of harmful chemicals that can harm the environment. Sugar cane processing requires burning tons of sugar cane itself. This results in high emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Although the sugar cane plants absorb carbon dioxide, this cannot offset the emissions from the burning of the sugar cane and the machinery used to harvest and process it. Unrefined sugar crystals are originally brown because it contains molasses. Those crystals are then bleached with chemicals like phosphoric acid or sulphur dioxide to get the appearance of white sugar. It then undergoes more drying and vacuuming process to achieve better quality. A lot of manufacturing processes means that it requires more energy in processing. If you would think that brown sugar is better because it is not bleached, think again. It is much worse because it is just the regular white bleached sugar with the removed molasse
