The diagram below shows the manufacturing process for making sugar from sugar cane.

The diagram illustrates a process by which

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is made from a simple

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cane.

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, it is a complex process that consists of three main steps. It commences with the growing stage and ends with drying and cooling the ready product.

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,

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rod is planted and grown in fertile lands, usually taking 12 months at minimum and 18 at maximum to finish. Once the pole is ripe, it is harvested, followed by the step of crushing the harvested carbohydrate cane into juice. Having made into a juice, the freshly squeezed liquid is purified with a limestone filter and

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put in an evaporator in order to make the juice transform into syrup. In the sixth phase, the newly made syrup goes in a centrifuge, a crucial step where the

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crystals get separated from the syrup.

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process culminates by drying and cooling the carbohydrate crystals to make the common

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found in supermarkets.