Sugar Crystals: White sugar is not bleached. White sugar is not even white. It is actually beautiful pure clear sucrose crystals. Bags of sugar are made up of many crystals, these appear white because of refraction and diffraction of light. If you take a single crystal and hold it to the light, you’ll see that it’s actually colourless. Take a screenshot and zoom in and you will see. The sugar goes through a purification process not bleaching. It is dark in colour right till then end of processin