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white refined sugar Icumsa 45 from Brazil and Malaysia
sugar is an important food also commonly known as sucrose and has been originally produced in the Indian since ancient times. Is the world's most popular sweetener, in form a white crystalline substance, tastes sweet, a carbohydrate and 100pct soluble in water. Sugars may differ in colour, flavour, sweetness and crystal size. Each of these characteristics allows sugar to perform a variety of functions in food products, in addition to providing a sweet taste.
Global sugar production for the crop year 2011/12 is estimated in 168 million metric tons. Brazil is now the world's leading sugar producer and exporter, accounting for approximately 20 percent of global production and 44 percent of world exports, using for the cultivation of sugarcane averaged 9 million hectares with all necessaryagroecological zoning, which represents around 1 percent of Brazil's land.
During the most recent harvest, national sugar output reached 40 million tons. Approximately two-thirds of the sugar produced in Brazil is destined for foreign markets. More than 100 countries around the world rely on sugar from Brazil.