Product Description

Sugar is an important food also commonly known as sucrose and has been originally produced in the Indian since ancient times. Is the world's most popular sweetener, in form a white crystalline substance, tastes sweet, a carbohydrate and **0pct soluble in water. Sugars may differ in colour, flavour, sweetness and crystal size. Each of these characteristics allows sugar to perform a variety of functions in food products, in addition to providing a sweet taste.

Global sugar production for the crop year ***1/*2 is estimated in **8 million metric tons. Brazil is now the world's leading sugar producer and exporter, accounting for approximately *0 percent of global production and *4 percent of world exports, using for the cultivation of sugarcane averaged 9 million hectares with all necessaryagroecological zoning, which represents around 1 percent of Brazil's land.

During the most recent harvest, national sugar output reached *0 million tons. Approximately two-thirds of the sugar produced in Brazil is destined for foreign markets. More than **0 countries around the world rely on sugar from Brazil.

One of the most common sugar type produced in Brazil is the refined, what represents around *0 percent of the Brazilian sugar exports. This is the most highly refined form of sugar and has a sparkling white color. It is the most often type sold direct to consumers in the form of sugar cubes, bags of sugar, and in sugar sachets. It´s also typically exported in sacks and used in the manufacture of food products such as cocoa powder, soda or retail products, and drugs.

Technically, in Brazilian SGS rating as Reference Base Units (RBU), the production process to refined sugar results in the rating color/ quality ICUMSA *5, according the ICUMSA (International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis) classification. The ICUMSA rating system could vary in some countries, but the Brazilian rating is the most widely used system and could vary from *5 to ***0, what represents highly refined granulated sugar and very raw sugar, respectively.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

Product Refined Cane Sugar for Human Consumption
Origin Various
Crop Current
Icumsa Index *5 RBU
Polarization *9.*0pct minimum at *0 degrees Centigrade
Solubility **0pct dry/free fine flowing
Moisture 0.*4pct maximum on dry weight basis
Ash content 0.*4 maximum by electrical conduction
Granulation Fine standard - 0.***0.*0 am/mm
Magnetic particle 4 max mg/kg
Reducing sugar 0.*5pct maximum by weight
Radiation Normal W/O presence of cesium or iodine
Substance Solid Crystal
Sediments None
Smell Free
HPN Staph Aureus Nil
SO2 *0 mg/kg maximum
MAX AS 1 p.p.m.
MAX PB 2 p.p.m
MAX CU 3 p.p.m.