1 It is aluminum potassium sulfate. 2  This is the type of alum that you find in the grocery store for pickling and in baking powder. 3  It is also used in leather tanning, as a flocculant in water purification, as an ingredient in aftershave and as a treatment to fireproof textiles. 4  It's chemical formula is KAl(SO 4) 2.
1 The sugar that is white sugar is the same as that in raw sugar and treacle â but raw sugar and treacle contain other things which make them a brown colour and taste different.  Sugar is made from sugar beet or sugar cane by refining it. This is done in a factory called a refinery.
Coconut sugar is unrefined and gold to deep brown in color, resembling brown sugar in appearance. It is not made from coconut juice, milk, or meat. Instead, it is prepared from the sap of palm trees, with sugar cane juice sometimes added. The sap is boiled and concentrated until it reaches a granulated form.