question: What is the difference between cane sugar and any other type of sugar? Why is cane sugar advertised so heavily?
comment: In the US most sugar comes from sugar beets, not sugar cane, because sugar cane grows best in warmer climates than are common here. It’s also to distinguish from corn syrup sweeteners. But yeah, it’s just sugar, and they think you’re stupid.
passages: BULLET::::- Syrup: a traditional sweetener in soft drinks, now largely supplanted in the US by high fructose corn syrup, which is less expensive because of corn subsidies and sugar tariffs.
  
  BULLET::::- Molasses: used as a sweetener and a syrup accompanying other foods, such as cheese or cookies
   Steen's cane syrup
  
  Steen's cane syrup is a traditional American sweetener made by the simple concentration of cane juice through long cooking in open kettles. The result is a dark, "caramel–flavored, burnt gold–colored syrup", "deep and slightly sulfurous" with a "lightly bitter backlash". It is sweeter than molasses because no refined sugar is removed from the product. 
   Most of NCS is produced on small scale in farms which process their own sugar cane using traditional technology. Production appears inefficient and its quality uneven. In some countries, such as India, Colombia, Brazil and Costa Rica, a larger scale NCS industry exists, which process cane from outside farmers using improved technology, which is centered on more efficient energy use and better processing to obtain homogeneous quality and scale-savings.
   BULLET::::- Evaporated cane juice – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines evaporated cane juice as any sweetener derived from sugarcane syrup. The US FDA considers the term “evaporated cane juice” to be misleading because the term incorrectly suggests that it is a juice, when it is sugar syrup. Instead, the US FDA recommends using “sugar cane syrup” or “dried cane syrup” on food labels.
  
  BULLET::::- Falernum – a syrup liqueur from the Caribbean best known for its use in tropical drinks
   Evaporated cane juice is a misleading term for "sugar". Sugar can include glucose or fructose. Sugar is a partially purified sugar syrup, produced from a single-crystallization process during sugar cane milling.
  
  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines evaporated cane juice as any sweetener derived from sugarcane syrup. The US FDA considers the term “evaporated cane juice” to be misleading because the term incorrectly suggests that it is a juice, when it is sugar syrup. Instead, the US FDA recommends using “sugar cane syrup” or “dried cane syrup” on food labels.
  
  Section::::Regions.
  
  Section::::Regions.:Asia.
  
  Section::::Regions.:Asia.:India.
   Section::::Composition.
  
  NCS contains over 90% carbohydrate, sucrose being the predominant (near 80%) sugar. It also contains minerals (up to 3%), mainly calcium, potassium, sodium, chloride and phosphates, but also a number of essential nutrients or oligo-elements including iron, zinc, magnesium, copper, cobalt, nickel and chromium. The particular chemical composition of NCS depends on the cane variety used, the soils on which it was grown, the fertilization applied and the processing methods.
  
  Section::::Economy.
   Ribbon cane is a subtropical type that was once widely grown in the southern United States, as far north as coastal North Carolina. The juice was extracted with horse or mule-powered crushers; the juice was boiled, like maple syrup, in a flat pan, and then used in the syrup form as a food sweetener. It is not currently a commercial crop, but a few growers find ready sales for their product.
  
  Section::::Processing.:Pollution from sugarcane processing.
   Section::::Processing.:Milling.
  
  Sugarcane processing produces cane sugar (sucrose) from sugarcane. Other products of the processing include bagasse, molasses, and filtercake.
  
  Bagasse, the residual dry fiber of the cane after cane juice has been extracted, is used for several purposes:
  
  BULLET::::- fuel for the boilers and kilns,
  
  BULLET::::- production of paper, paperboard products, and reconstituted panelboard,
  
  BULLET::::- agricultural mulch, and more,
  
  BULLET::::- as a raw material for production of chemicals.
   The company is also the majority shareholder of Belize Sugar Industries, the only sugar mill in Belize.
  
  American Sugar Refining is owned by Florida Crystals Corporation (based in West Palm Beach) and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida (Belle Glade, Florida).
  
  American Sugar Refining's main competitor in the United States for refined cane sugar is Imperial Sugar.
  
  Section::::Lyle's Golden Syrup.
   Processing involves separating the natural sugar juice from the stalk then concentrating the juice to produce raw sugar crystals and blackstrap molasses, which is sold primarily as animal feed. During the 2010-11 harvest season, the Cooperative produced more than 260,000 tons of raw sugar and 16 million gallons of black strap molasses.
  
  Section::::Sugarcane.:Marketing, Refineries, and Brands.
  
  The Cooperative's raw sugar is marketed and shipped through the Florida Sugar and Molasses Exchange located in the Port of Palm Beach, Florida. The raw sugar is sold to American Sugar Refining, Inc., where it is refined to produce white table sugar.
   Many cane sugar mills produce raw sugar, which is sugar that still contains molasses, giving it more colour (and impurities) than the white sugar which is normally consumed in households and used as an ingredient in soft drinks and foods. While cane sugar does not need refining to be palatable, sugar from sugar beet is almost always refined to remove the strong, almost always unwanted, taste of beets from it. The refined sugar produced is more than 99 percent pure sucrose. 
   A boiler produces steam during the milling process by burning bagasse. Steam is co-generated into electricity on-site. In essence, each year's cane crop provides power for both the sugar factory and U.S. Sugar's refinery operations.
   Mill white, also called plantation white, crystal sugar or superior sugar is produced from raw sugar. It is exposed to sulfur dioxide during the production to reduce the concentration of color compounds and helps prevent further color development during the crystallization process. Although common to sugarcane-growing areas, this product does not store or ship well. After a few weeks, its impurities tend to promote discoloration and clumping; therefore this type of sugar is generally limited to local consumption.
  
  Section::::Production.:Types.:Culinary sugars.:Blanco directo.
   NCS is clean dried sugar cane juice. Given the high sugar content of cane juice NCS is essentially made up of crystals of sucrose mixed with molasses, and many additional constituents of cane juice, like inverted sugars (glucose and fructose), minerals, vitamins, organic acids, and other trace substances, many still unknown. Depending on its manufacturing process it is either presented in solid form, known as lump sugar, or granulated form.
  
  Section::::Manufacturing process.
   BULLET::::- Beet sugar – made from sugar beets, contains a high concentration of sucrose
  
  BULLET::::- Birch syrup – around 42-54% fructose, 45% glucose, plus a small amount of sucrose
  
  BULLET::::- Brown sugar – Consists of a minimum 88% sucrose and invert sugar. Commercial brown sugar contains from 4.5% molasses (light brown sugar) to 6.5% molasses (dark brown sugar) based on total volume. Based on total weight, regular commercial brown sugar contains up to 10% molasses.
  
  BULLET::::- Buttered syrup
  
  BULLET::::- Cane sugar (cane juice, cane juice crystals), contains a high concentration of sucrose.
   Sugarcane mill
  
  A sugar cane mill is a sugar refinery that processes sugar cane to produce raw or white sugar. 
  
  The term is also used to refer to the equipment that crushes the sticks of sugar cane to extract the juice.
  
  Section::::Processing.
  
  There are a number of steps in producing raw sugar from cane:
  
  BULLET::::1. Cane receiving and unloading (receive the cane at the factory and unload it from the transport vehicles)
  
  BULLET::::2. Cane preparation (cutting and shredding cane to prepare it for juice extraction)
  
  BULLET::::3. Juice extraction (two technologies are in common use; milling or diffusion)
   The basic manufacture process of NCS involves juice extraction, physical elimination of impurities and clarification of the juice, evaporation of the water content of the juice, crystallization, eventually drying and packaging.
  
  The cane juice is generally extracted from cleaned and eventually shredded cane stalks by mechanical processes, commonly with simple crushers consisting of three metal rollers. It is filtered to separate bagasse particles and/or allowed to settle so to eliminate solid impurities.
   Generally produced for local markets, NCS probably was the dominant form of cane sugar consumption before the advent of large-scale production of refined sugar for export markets after 1700. Today, NCS has practically disappeared in most non-sugarcane producing countries, as it is traded internationally only in small amounts. However, NCS remains important in most sugarcane producing countries, as shown by the average share in the daily consumption of caloric sweeteners (g/person/day, 2007) in the following countries: Myanmar 46%; Bangladesh 20%; Colombia 19%; India 10%; Pakistan 10%.
   These processing steps will produce a brown or raw sugar. Mill white sugar also known as plantation white sugar can be produced by introducing some form of colour removal process (often sulphitation) between the juice clarification and the juice evaporation stages mentioned above. The raw sugar produced is often refined to produce white sugar. This sugar refining can be done either at a completely separate factory or at a back-end refinery which is attached to the raw sugar factory.
  
  Section::::Processing.:Juice extraction.
  
  There are two processes for extracting juice from cane:
  
  BULLET::::- Milling, and
  
  BULLET::::- Diffusion.
  
  Section::::Processing.:Juice extraction.:Milling.
   BULLET::::- Pekmez – a molasses-like syrup obtained after condensing juices of fruit must, especially grape
  
  BULLET::::- Rose syrup – made from rose water with added sugar
  
  BULLET::::- Squash – a non-alcoholic concentrated syrup used in beverage making
  
  BULLET::::- Steen's cane syrup – a traditional American sweetener made by the simple concentration of cane juice through long cooking in open kettles.
   The top 10 sugar-producing companies based on production in 2010:
  
  The global sugar industry has a low market share concentration. The top four sugar producers account for less than 20.0% of the market.
  
  Section::::Products.
  
  BULLET::::- raw sugar
  
  BULLET::::- liquid sugar
  
  BULLET::::- refined sugar
  
  BULLET::::- molasses
  
  BULLET::::- sugar alcohol
  
  BULLET::::- brown sugar
  
  BULLET::::- Powdered sugar
  
  BULLET::::- Meringue
  
  BULLET::::- Cupcake
  
  BULLET::::- Marshmallow
  
  BULLET::::- Cake
  
  BULLET::::- Honey
  
  Section::::Lobbying and marketing.
  
  The sugar industry engages in sugar marketing and lobbying, minimizing the health effects of sugar and influencing medical research and public health recommendations.
  
  Section::::Lobbying and marketing.:Organizations.
  
  BULLET::::- International Sugar Organization
   The international trade in NCS has been small and decreasing, reaching more recently levels in the order of 50,000 tons per year. Again, the true quantities are probably greater, as NCS is classified in different ways by importing countries. The introduction of the granulated presentation has permitted the development of a small specialty market in Europe, U.S. and Japan supplied by at least a few producers from India, Costa Rica, Colombia and Brazil.
  
  Section::::NCS technology.
   BULLET::::- Non-centrifugal cane sugar – made by the simple evaporation of sugar cane juice.
  
  BULLET::::- Palm sugar – made from sap tapped from the inflorescence of assorted varieties of palm
  
  BULLET::::- Panocha
  
  BULLET::::- Powdered sugar
  
  BULLET::::- Raw sugar
  
  BULLET::::- Refiner's sugar, refiner's syrup
  
  BULLET::::- Ribose
  
  BULLET::::- Rice syrup
  
  BULLET::::- Rhamnose
  
  BULLET::::- Saccharose
  
  BULLET::::- Sorghum syrup
  
  BULLET::::- Sucrose – also known as white sugar or table sugar is a disaccharide combination of the two monosaccharides glucose and fructose
  
  BULLET::::- Sugarcane, which contains a high concentration of sucrose
  
  BULLET::::- Sugar (granulated)
  
  BULLET::::- Sweet sorghum
  
  BULLET::::- Syrup
   In October 2010 the company sold 26,800 acres of land to the South Florida Water Management District for the "River of Grass" Restoration Project.
  
  U.S. Sugar powers its facilities with renewable resources – the residual sugarcane fiber after juice is extracted, known as bagasse. Bagasse is a clean, fibrous biofuel that results from the sugarcane extraction process. Every ton of bagasse powers the equivalent of 50 gallons of fuel oil.
   Sugar from sugarcane is natural and has been grown by farmers for hundreds of years; it is a natural and environmentally gentle crop. Sugar balances flavor, preserves foods and provides the necessary moisture to keep foods fresh. In its refined state, sugar is a pure commercially produced organic substance, containing more than 99.9 percent sucrose. For this reason, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined sugar to be a "safe food" because it is all natural and free of any synthetic chemicals, preservatives, or additives.
  
presuppositions: Cane sugar is different from other types of sugar.
corrections: Can sugar is no different from other types of sugar.
raw_presuppositions: Cane sugar is different from other types of sugar. There is a difference between cane sugar and other types of sugar.
raw_corrections: Can sugar is no different from other types of sugar. There is actually no difference between cane sugar and other sugar.