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Sucanat is a registered trademark of Ragus Holdings, Inc. Sucanat stands for SUgar CAne NATural (SU CA NAT) and is made by crushing the sugar cane, extracting the juice then heating it.The juice is reduced to a dark syrup, then hand-paddled, creating dry porous granules called Sucanat.ucanat stands for SUgar CAne NATural (SU CA NAT) and is made by crushing the sugar cane, extracting the juice then heating it. The juice is reduced to a dark syrup, then hand-paddled, creating dry porous granules called Sucanat.
suÂ·crose. n. A crystalline disaccharide of fructose and glucose, C 12 H 22 O 11, found in many plants but extracted as ordinary sugar mainly from sugarcane and sugar beets, widely used as a sweetener or preservative and in the manufacture of plastics and soaps. Also called saccharose.