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US 2010/0304004 A1Published application
Whole sugar
AssigneesCentral Castilla S.A., Intercontinental Sugar USA, LLC
InventorsBernardo Quintero Balcazar, Humberto Francisco Benitez Bueno, Vivian Alexandra Posso Trujillo, Gabriel Arguello Gamboa, Hernando Cardenas
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Abstract
A whole sugar contains saccharose and additional ingredients from sugar cane not found in conventional raw, white, refined, or amorphous sugars. Processes for making the whole sugar are disclosed.
Claims11
A method for producing whole sugar includes the steps of:
- removing water from a base syrup to form a supersaturated massecuite, where the base syrup has a concentration of dissolved solids in the range of about 68% to about 74% and contains a B-seed and at least one other product of a purging, evaporating or milling step of a conventional sugar production process;
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- crystallizing whole sugar from the massecuite.
A whole sugar made according to a process comprising the steps of:
- removing water from a base syrup to form a supersaturated massecuite, where the base syrup has a concentration of dissolved solids in the range of about 68° to about 74° and contains a B-seed and at least one other product of a purging, evaporating or milling step of a conventional sugar production process;
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- crystallizing the whole sugar from the massecuite.
A whole sugar comprising at least 83% saccharose by weight, other reducing sugars, and minerals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.