Food-grade Sucrose Common sucrose and its processed products mainly include brown sugar (also known as red sugar, sand sugar, purple sand sugar, yellow sugar, black sugar), white granulated sugar, soft white sugar, rock candy (monocrystalline), rock sugar (polycrystalline, also known as old rock sugar, white rock sugar), cube sugar, etc. Properties: White crystalline powder, odorless solid, sweet taste, relative density 1.587, melting point 170-186°C (decomposition), easily soluble in water. Preparation: Obtained by clarification, evaporation, and crystallization after pressing or percolation of sugarcane or sugar beets. Uses: Nutritional sweetener, forming and structuring agent. Sweetener for: tea, coffee, medicinal liquids, pills, soda, candy, biscuits, pastries, cured meats, condiments.