Alum is a salt that in chemistry is a combination of an alkali metal, such as sodium, potassium, or ammonium and a trivalent metal, such as aluminum, iron, or chromium.
USDA allocates a share of the anticipated U.S. sugar market to sugar producers annually. This allotment basically determines the amount of sugar an individual company is allowed to sell that year. However, these allotments can be, and often are, adjusted based on harvest conditions.
About Â¾ of the total sugar (sucrose) produced worldwide is from sugarcane and Â¼ from sugarbeet. 1  In the U.S., cane sugar accounts for 45% of the refined sugar consumed each year; the remaining is for beet sugar. Beet sugars are processed in a Sugar Factory. Almost ten types of beet sugar are available to consumers.