Sugar clarifying composition

In a process for the preparation of purified cane sugar including the steps of:

• (1) liming by adding lime to cane sugar juice to raise the pH to above about 7;
• (2) heating the cane sugar juice;
• (3) separating precipitates in a clarifier to provide a clarified cane sugar juice;
• (4) evaporating said cane sugar juice in one or more evaporators to obtain a concentrated syrup;
• (5) agitating said concentrated syrup from the resulting foam and residue;
• (6) further evaporating said purified concentrated syrup in vacuum pans to obtain at least a saturated syrup;
• and
• (7) crystallizing sugar from said saturated syrup in crystallizing pans to obtain massecuite;
• the improvement which comprises:
• adding to a cane sugar solution prior to crystallization of said sugar, a composition (A) and a composition (B), wherein:
• A is comprised of
• ______________________________________ Ingredient Weight Percent ______________________________________ CaHPO.sub.4 . 2H.sub.2 O 10-100 Al.sub.[1]2 (SO.sub.4).sub.3 0-40 Kaolin 0-40 Na.sub.3 PO.sub.4 .H.sub.2 O 0-90 Na polyacrylamide 0-5 ______________________________________
• and B is comprised of
• ______________________________________ Ingredient Weight Percent ______________________________________ Na.sub.2 CO.sub.3 10-100 NaOH 0-80 CaO 0-80 MgO 0-40 ______________________________________
• wherein composition (A) is added in an amount to provide 1-500ppm and composition (B) is added in an amount to provide 2-200ppm;
• and obtaining a highly purified cane sugar.