Show new grade of sugar now developed A new grade of sugar for for curett direct consumption has been produced ex peri mentally from sugar cane by U S department of agriculture ests the sugar is made by a process using resin mate rails ralls ion exchange ers to purify the cane juice the quality of this new grade of sugar refining in many food products par makes it suitable for use without tic fic candy and confections yields of cane sugar obtained in the laboratory by the new process are higher that those of conventional processes under louisi arina a con n editions dit ions for example the jare increase ascola in yield would amount to about 12 to 15 pounds of sugar per ton of cane of average sucrose content similar savings presumably would result with acne from florida puerto rico and hawaii one of the most pressing problems of the candy industry is to obtain sugars of adequate quality at mini mum cost experience has shown that many types of candies of ex cellena quality can be produced with less expensive grades of sugar an example is mado nado sugar which has been used for many years in i substantial quantities for caramels certain types of coatings and other candies u q J 4 kt 1 |