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Cane sugar
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Sucrose.
White refined
White sugar, also called table sugar or regular sugar, is a commonly used type of sugar, made either of beet sugar or cane sugar. It is nearly pure sucrose. The refining process completely removes the molasses from cane juice or beet juice to give the disaccharide white sugar, sucrose. It has a purity higher than 99.7%. Its molecular formula is C
12H
22O
11. White sugars produced from sugar cane and sugar beet are chemically indistinguishable: it is possible, however, to identify their origin through a carbon-13 analysis.