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.
Carbohydrates give our bodies energy. Sugar can be absorbed very quickly by the body and used as energy. The body stores the energy it does not need as glycogen (gly-co-jen) in the liver. Sugar can come from sugar cane or the root of the sugar beet plant. Maple syrup (from maple trees) and honey are also almost all made of sugar. They contain very small amounts of other chemicals which make them look and taste different.