The options and prospects for the direct production of white sugar in a cane sugar mill are reviewed. Plantation white sugar has been made for many years in some countries but cannot meet the requirements for refined sugars. These low colour sugars are now a popular quality raw sugar for the increasing number of destination refineries. Attainment of refined sugar standards needs the application...

Water is a major constituent of food products even if it is present at a trace level as in white crystalline sugar. Molecular interactions between sugar and water are at the origin of structural as well as mechanical properties (density, compressibility, flow) of bulk sugar. Conditioning of white sugar is therefore difficult because it is sensitive to relative humidity and temperature of surrou...

Excess sugar consumption in children has led to the removal of chocolate milk from some schools. Lower-sugar formulations, if accepted, would provide the benefits of milk consumption. In a cross-over trial, milk consumption was measured in 8 schools over 6 weeks in 2 phases: phase 1 provided standard 1% chocolate milk and plain 2% milk choices for the first 3 weeks, and phase 2 provided reduced...

this research was carried out to evaluate the effects of irrigation methods and n fertilizer rates on the quantity and quality of sugar beet in ekbatan research station during 2001 and 2002. experiment was performed in split-plot with 3 replications and 15 treatments. treatments included 3 irrigation systems: sprinkler (solid set)، furrow (hydroflum) and drip (tape: 508-20-500) in main plots an...

for considering and evaluating the economic impacts of sugar beet research on the shift of sugar supply, we need to estimate the parameter of supply shift. having developed an appropriate methodology and using the results of breeding research collected from the main stations of sugar beet research acrossiranfor the period of 1982-2003, the supply shift parameter for sugar was estimated.  this p...

The carbohydrate moiety of secretory arabinogalactan protein in bean seedlings (Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Prélude) is attached to the peptide backbone through hydroxyproline, serine, and threonine. Hydroxyproline-linked side chains, consisting of arabinose, galactose, glucose, and rhamnose, comprise the major part of the sugar residues. These hydroxyproline glycosides differ from those in non-e...

for continues production if field crops in arid and semi arid regions of the world, such as iran, beside of using of drought resistant varieties, water management must also be considered. in this context, the use of tape drip irrigation system could reduce the amount of irrigation water consumption. this study, was conducted to determine the best sowing pattern of sugar beet under type drip irr...

We hypothesized that differences in microbial and plant N demand in balsam poplar and white spruce stands would control in situ net N transformation and retention following N additions. Throughout the study, N fertilizer (NH4NO3) was added in three increments during the growing season, giving an annual N addition of 100 kg ha 1 yr . In balsam poplar, fertilization induced a large ( 285%) increa...