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Sugar and starch are among the most abundant plant products available, and large industries exist worldwide to extract and process them from agricultural sources. The world production of sugar (sucrose from cane and beet) in 2007/2008 was 170.4 million metric tons, raw value [1], with 20.7% being beet sugar and 79.3% cane sugar. The proportion of beet sugar to cane sugar has fallen steadily since about 1971, when it constituted 42.8% of total sugar production [2]. The decline in beet sugar proportion represents not so much a decline in beet production, which has remained in the range of 33–39 million metric tons, but rather a continued increase in cane sugar production from around 72 million metric tons in 1991 to 134 million metric tons in 2008. The total production of world sugar has risen dramatically since 1971/1972, when it was 71.7 million tons [3].

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    The Brix scale is a density scale for sugar (sucrose) solutions. The degrees Brix are numerically equal to the percentage of sucrose in solution (wt/wt). The term Brix solids refers to the solids in solution as determined by a refractometer.

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