These huge pans were used to boil sugar cane ... most of the refining work was done by slaves. Due to the high death rate on the plantations and the labour intensive nature of the process tens ...

The facility’s basic plant, the ninth domestic petrochemical operation for fast-growing Phillips, will be erected on 400 acres of sugar-cane fields ... of the Guayama refinery, however, will ...

It can be made from either sugarcane or sugar beets, depending on the brand, and goes through a more intensive refining process than cane sugar. This process removes the majority of its impurities ...

The discharge occurred when the plant received raw cane sugar from ships that dock at the facility.

So, why do we make cane sugar white? It seems to come down to both the refining process, as well as aesthetic preferences.