| ▲ | Suppafly 3 days ago | |||||||
>You cannot process sugar cane into table sugar without an industrial plant. That's obviously false. | ||||||||
| ▲ | johnyzee 2 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
The refined sugar you buy in the store ('table sugar') is clarified with phosphoric acid and bleached using a number of other chemicals. In addition to this, it goes though a number of other industrial processing steps that you would not be able to perform at home. Hence, it is 'highly processed'. | ||||||||
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