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[[Image:Jaggery.jpg|300px|thumb|right|A block of jaggery]]

Raw sugars comprise yellow to brown sugars made by clarifying the source syrup by [[boiling]] and drying with heat until it becomes a crystalline solid. Raw beet sugars result from the processing of sugar beet juice, but only as intermediates en route to white sugar. Types of raw sugar include '''demerara''', '''muscovado''', '''rapadura''' and '''turbinado'''. Manufacturers sometimes prepare '''raw sugar''' as loaves rather than as a crystalline powder, by pouring sugar and [[molasses]] together into moulds and allowing the mixture to dry. This results in sugar-cakes or loaves, called '''jaggery''' or '''gur''' in India, '''pingbian tang''' in China, and '''panela''', '''panocha''', '''pile''', '''piloncillo''' and '''pão-de-açúcar''' in various parts of Latin America.

[[Image:Sugar.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Sugars; white, brown, muscovado and rapadura (organic)]]

[[Sucrose|White refined sugar]] has become the most common form of sugar. White refined sugar is typically sold as granulated sugar, which has been dried to prevent clumping.