The drying process removes water, which concentrates sugar and raises the caloric content by weight.
Concentrated sugars, refined starches, and artificial ingredients are biologically active substance with real potential for harm, not just for long-term health but also for short-term physical and mental performance.
Concentrated sugars, however, can be shipped to remote sites such as ethanol plants or other sugar users.
The feedstocks used should consist of highly concentrated sugars, but with increasing the sugar content in lignocellulosic hydrolysates, there will ultimately be increased amounts of inhibitors.
High-cell-density cultivation is a prerequisite to maximize volumetric productivity of microbial oil fermentation, and the media used should be typically composed of highly concentrated sugars [ 33- 35].
Most ciders are made with apples, apple concentrate and sugar.
The British Soft Drinks Association (a trade body) reported total sales of 163 L/person/year (assuming a 1 4 ratio for concentrates) of sugar sweetened drinks (that is, carbonates, concentrates, still and juice beverages, and energy drinks, but excluding water and diet beverages) in the UK in 2011.
Sugarcane juice can be pressed from the cane for use as the base raw material for fermentation, or the juice may be concentrated for sugar production, with the molasses residue from the sugar crystallization used as a base for fermentation.
By the time the riesling grapes were harvested in November 1998, they were covered by Botrytis cinerea -- so-called noble rot -- an ugly mold that, in shrinking grapes, dehydrates them and concentrates their sugar.
Rustenberg Straw Wine, Coastal Region, South Africa 2012 (37.5cl, £13.49, Waitrose; £8.99 in a 'mixed six', majestic.co.uk) South African winemakers have made something of a speciality of sweet wines produced from grapes dried on straw mats, concentrating the sugar and flavour.
