How Sugar Is Made | How It's Made 

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.

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!

All the RU-vid industrial videos has taught me that you can solve any problem by spinning it right.

I like how they clarified the whole process

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.

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.

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.

Wtf is this man, this is like a million times more complicated and labor intensive than I would have ever imagined...

The sugar does not taste anything like the Sugarcane. I use to pick sugarcane in the desert Nothing like it! Soooo good!

Watching videos like this makes me realize I can’t imagine designing this process myself, and that’s humbling.

Nothing like freshly squeezed Sugarcane juice. Man I miss my early years in Brazil

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.

They must have a massive ant problem

cant believe all this is happening behind the scenes in my crafting menu whenever I make sugar

Fascinating! Would never have suspected that a centrifuge is used to separate out the molasses!

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.

One piece of sugar cane should get you one piece of sugar if crafted correctly

If you take out the narration I'd say they were making some kind of industrial chemical. Gnarly process.

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.

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

I didn't know how sugar was made, but this was not close to what I expected

Fresh sugar cane juice is tasty tasty tasty 🤤

After watching videos like this just makes you appreciate the huge role automated machines had in the industrial evolution , imagine these steps by hand

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)

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.

Fantastic video. Just goes to show, that Physical Chemistry is everywhere especially in Industry and in Chemical Engineering.

6:06 How 'Poison' Is Made 😮😮

Wow! I never knew it was such a process!

In conclusion, first we start with a plant, then 300 steps and 30 machines later we get sugar!

Going to a sugar factory like one of these would be any little kids dream. Like Sally and the Sugar Factory

It's amazing how many stages of production there are😮

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

Plz add subtitles 💜💜💜

So much work wow

In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

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!!

I am impressed with the chemists and chemical engineers that worked out this process....

Nice! Very informative

Nice info, thank you for sharing it :)

All this knowledge is _sweet._

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

wow! now i know how it's made!

Just came from Fiji, tons of cane fields

Thats cool

That's so sweet

we in the ARAB country's , specially in JORDAN , EGYPT PALESTINE and more ... Lovvveee this juice 🤍🤍❤️❤️ happy eid every body .

just drink the damn sugar cane juice...mix it with coconut juice and you are in heaven

In Brazil you just drink the juice very refreshing

This is sweet!

That’s a sweet job !

is it bad that i was expecting Hugbee when i clicked this video?

I have tasted sugarcane before. It tasted like real sugar 😋.

The juiceee!

My schools used to be sugar cane plantations, so it's really cool to see how sugar is made today

Uk narrator is the best I swear, I like how he adds little things like "to put in your tea"

Great work thank yoU

Sweet video!

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 ).

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.

nice vid!

I prefer How It's Made. Their explanations don't have as many gaps and the music is better.

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

I’m having a sudden migraine by watching how sugar is made

Amazing..

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Thought the lime was used to neutralize the acid used

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.

Im gonna sue the inventor of the sugar cane in the ICC World Court for my 7 cavities

So much for homemade.

as horrible as humans can be it never ceases to amaze me how much we are capable of when we work together

A thousand kilo bag of sugar. Now that is a ton of sugar... I'll see myself out.

At the mill, trucks empty their load into a receiving table

So many steps to turn into table sugar

And here I was thinking that crystalized sugar was just inside the cane itself.

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...

4:09-4:12 Not going to lie, that looks pretty good

Sweet!

as one legend said: "EUROOOOOOPE! AAAAAW!!! ❤️"

This is the modern way of processing sugar. I wonder how the process was done in the old days.

super!

Sugarcane juice is the healthy part 😋

Sugar cane taste like the yellow honey dew melon

We have this because at some point some person was hungry enough or curious enough to try their luck with eating a stick.

Sweet!!

Am I the only one who drinks sugar cane juice it's so delicious 😋

Yeah now imma stick with honey or brown sugar for the rest of my life

There's nothing better than ice cold cane juice

clearly delicious and all natural product

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.

I’m never eating processed sugar ever again

Wow....make a sugar like this....first time i see in my life....good job my friends

the bagasse is crazy

0:02 *That’s what she said…*

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

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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.

I wonder how they prevent ants.

Wait, so one of the steps for making sucrose is "add sucrose"? What the hell?

This video had me extremely curious about the utility of liquid sugar in baking. Might be useful for high altitudes.