Re: Fresh Sugar Cane — Fresh 1lb Sugar Cane

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Holt <danthemanholt@...> wrote:

>

> Is it easy to extract the sugarcane from the planted by peeling the bamboo

off?

Um, no. Sugarcane is the plant, which is like bamboo in shape and size. Cane

juice (the sweet stuff) is the liquid in the sugarcane plant. To get sugar,

sugar cane is mechanically processed to extract the liquid, then the liquid is

evaporated. Additional processing and milling are needed to create refined white

sugar from the raw sugar that results from the first stage of processing. (Wiki

it!)

Chewing a sugarcane stick could accomplish the mechanical processing stage of

sugar extraction mentioned above. Chew and suck the liquid out. Your jaw may

suffer, however!

The only way to " peel " sugar would be to buy a package of jaggery or panela and

rip off the plastic. ;-)

Pam