Sugar and Sugar Products

Sugar and sugar products.

Emphasis over the past year has been on editorial effort to bring Chapter 44, Sugar and Sugar Products of the Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (OMA) to the high standards set for the 17th Edition of the compendium. In addition, 2 method studies were reported and subjected to peer review, respectively, dealing with detection of adulteration of maple syrup by beet or cane sugar ...

Sugar Cane By-products as Livestock Feed

Sugar cane is one of the most successful tropical crops, with many agronomic factors in its favour such as high yield, tolerance of a wide range of soils, resistance-to pests, a perennial growth habit, and a sophisticated supportive technology providing improved varieties and cultural practices. It is still grown almost exclusively for sugar production; however, a number of alternative uses hav...

Smart Sugar? The Sugar Conspiracy

Sugar

By 1961 the situation had become reversed. The fibre consumption of the highest income groups relative to that of the lowest increased steadily during this period. When compared to the lowest two social classes the highest two with the higher overall fibre intake emerged with a lower incidence ofCHD over the twenty years.73 Finally, in a prospective secondary prevention study, Daan Kromhout and...

Theoretical and Practical Considerations on the Rheology of Sugar Products

Use of the Brookfield disc spindle and of the Brookfield cone and plate viscometers in the sugar industry is investigated. The theoretical aspects of each viscometer are discussed, including geometry, the ability to measure non-Newtonian fluids and the calculation of the results. Comparisons between the two viscometers, based on the use of viscosity standards, of pure and of impure sucrose solu...