Raw material and nutrient lexicon
Weitere Einträge
- Selenium
- Straight feed
- Skimmed milk powder
- Sodium
- Sodium chloride
- Complete feed
- Soy hulls
- Soy protein concentrate
- Soya extraction meal
- Soya oil
- Soybean
- Strength
- Structural value
- Sucrose
- Sugar
- Sugar beet molasses
- Sunflower extraction meal
- Supplementary feed
Sucrose
Sucrose(sugar) is extracted from the sugar beet in several processing steps. The washed and shredded beets are leached with 80 to 90 °C warm water using the countercurrent principle. This produces the so-called raw juice, which is further purified. This so-called purified thin juice is concentrated by evaporation (finally under vacuum). The main mass of sugar crystallises out of the resulting thick juice and is separated from the liquid residue, the sugar beet molasses, in centrifuges. By refining, i.e. by dissolving and crystallising again, the still brown-coloured raw sugar is purified from adhering molasses residues. The result is the white sugar (sucrose) used for human nutrition, which is also used in the diet of young animals as a source of energyand component with the highest palatability (sweetness).
