Brazilian sugar Manufacturer Crystal White Sugar has high-purity sucrose. Our crystal white sugar grains are dry with a white to clear color. Manufactured from sugar cane, crystal white sugar is suitable for direct consumption and use as a food and beverage ingredient. Refined Sugar is very high-purity sucrose. Its content is purer, and its grains are drier and clearer than crystal white sugar. Manufactured from sugar cane, refined Brazil sugar is suitable for both direct consumption and use as a food and beverage ingredient.

Sugar Standards & Specifications

Brown Sugar ICUMSA 600–1200 is a type of raw cane sugar commonly exported from Brazil. This sugar, often referred to as VHP (Very High Polarization) Sugar or simply Raw Sugar, is less refined than white sugar and retains more of the natural molasses, giving it a brown color and rich flavor. It is widely used in industrial food production, fermentation, and beverage industries due to its balance of purity and natural content.

• Brazil ICUMSA 35 Sugar – International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis
• Brazil ICUMSA 45 sugar – White Refined Sugar. Also called “London White”*
• Brazil ICUMSA 150 sugar (this includes ICUMSA 100 to ICUMSA 150). Also called Crystal Sugar.
• Brazil VHP or ICUMSA 600 – 1500. This is also called “Raw Sugar

MEANING AND WORKING

Brazilian sugar exporters ICUMSA is a worldwide body that brings together the National Committees for Sugar Analysis activities in more than thirty member countries. Work is carried out under various Subject headings, each headed by a Referee.
Methods are recommended for tentative approval by ICUMSA in the first instance. Methods are accorded official status upon meeting all of the Commission’s requirements. Methods which are demonstrably useful and have found an established application, or which do not lend themselves to collaborative testing, are given an Accepted status.”

An ICUMSA rating is an international unit for expressing the purity of the sugar in solution and is directly related to the color of the sugar. Be aware that there are different types of ICUMSA units for Brazilian sugar; the lower the ICUMSA figure, the whiter the sugar.
However, this is not the case in the E.U. for some unknown reason, which has been the subject of much discussion. SGS of Sao Paulo has published specifications for ICUMSA numbers for E.U. products, which run contrary to the Brazilian specifications; for example, in Brazil, SGS has an ICUMSA rating of 45, but for refined, indicating the highest quality, with other grades of lower quality (such as Special Extra Crystal) having a higher ICUMSA of 150 and so forth.

This rating method is confirmed by the Institute of Sugar and Alcohol in Brazil.

The TU is heavily dependent upon “ash points”, which are defined as “Conductivity ash, %, expressed to three decimal places” (British Sugar Corp., Central Laboratory, ICUMSA Headquarters). Further used to weigh the TU is “reflectance Grade Colour” and “Solution Colour” or “Filtered Colour” as it is referred to, which have formulas for determination equally confusing as the one for “Ash Points”. Thus, as you see, this is not easily understood by the novice. Contact us for more details and a quote