Reflectance Colorimeter: Sucroflex Brochure

The most eye-catching quality factor of crystal sugar is its color which may vary from brilliant white to yellow-brownish tones of different density. ICUMSA, the International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis, has defined a color type scale for color grading white sugars. It covers a range from 0 to 6, whereby 0 corresponds to a sugar of maximum whiteness, while 6 indicates a highly colored low-grade white sugar.

Sucroflex replaces the manual method in which sugar samples of unknown color are moved along a line of 7 color type standards to visually find the position at which color matching is best.

The instrument uses an Integrating Sphere Photometer to guarantee completely diffuse, shadeless illumination of samples. Grain size differences have no effect.