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Where is the sugar?

When you freeze a dilute aqueous sugar solution pure water freezes first, leaving a more concentrated solution until you reach a high concentration of sugar called the eutectic concentration. Now you have the pure water that's frozen out, called proeutectic water, and the concentrated eutectic sugar solution from which the sugar is finally ready to freeze along with the water. Upon freezing this eutectic composition forms a two-phase eutectic mixture, in which the sugar may appear as veins or lamellae (like veins of some ores among Earth's rocks, though these typically form form a different process). If that structure is in the interior of the ice cube, likely since you cooled the solution from the outside, then licking the outside you got only the pure water proeutectic component.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system for more about this process.

Addendum: I tried this with store-bought fruit juice which was red in color. Poured it into an ice tray and froze it overnight in my household freezer. It appeared to be a homogeneous red mass and tasted sweet, but was also mushy implying some liquid was still present (after overnight freezing for an ice cube sized sample). The juice was roughly 10% sugar by weight.

Where is the sugar?

When you freeze a dilute aqueous sugar solution pure water freezes first, leaving a more concentrated solution until you reach a high concentration of sugar called the eutectic concentration. Now you have the pure water that's frozen out, called proeutectic water, and the concentrated eutectic sugar solution from which the sugar is finally ready to freeze along with the water. Upon freezing this eutectic composition forms a two-phase eutectic mixture, in which the sugar may appear as veins or lamellae (like veins of some ores among Earth's rocks, though these typically form form a different process). If that structure is in the interior of the ice cube, likely since you cooled the solution from the outside, then licking the outside you got only the pure water proeutectic component.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system for more about this process.

Where is the sugar?

When you freeze a dilute aqueous sugar solution pure water freezes first, leaving a more concentrated solution until you reach a high concentration of sugar called the eutectic concentration. Now you have the pure water that's frozen out, called proeutectic water, and the concentrated eutectic sugar solution from which the sugar is finally ready to freeze along with the water. Upon freezing this eutectic composition forms a two-phase eutectic mixture, in which the sugar may appear as veins or lamellae (like veins of some ores among Earth's rocks, though these typically form form a different process). If that structure is in the interior of the ice cube, likely since you cooled the solution from the outside, then licking the outside you got only the pure water proeutectic component.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system for more about this process.

Addendum: I tried this with store-bought fruit juice which was red in color. Poured it into an ice tray and froze it overnight in my household freezer. It appeared to be a homogeneous red mass and tasted sweet, but was also mushy implying some liquid was still present (after overnight freezing for an ice cube sized sample). The juice was roughly 10% sugar by weight.

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Where is the sugar?

When you freeze a dilute aqueous sugar solution pure water freezes first, leaving a more concentrated solution until you reach a high concentration of sugar called the eutectic concentration. Now you have the pure water that's frozen out, called proeutectic water, and the concentrated eutectic sugar solution from which the sugar is finally ready to freeze along with the water. Upon freezing this eutectic composition forms a two-phase eutectic mixture, in which the sugar may appear as veins or lamellae (like veins of some ores among Earth's rocks, though these typically form form a different process). If that structure is in the interior of the ice cube, likely since you cooled the solution from the outside, then licking the outside you got only the pure water proeutectic component.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system for more about this process.

Where is the sugar?

When you freeze a dilute aqueous sugar solution pure water freezes first, leaving a more concentrated solution until you reach a high concentration of sugar called the eutectic concentration. Now you have the pure water that's frozen out, called proeutectic water, and the concentrated eutectic sugar solution from which the sugar is finally ready to freeze along with the water. Upon freezing this eutectic composition forms a two-phase eutectic mixture, in which the sugar may appear as veins or lamellae (like veins of some ores among Earth's rocks). If that structure is in the interior of the ice cube, likely since you cooled the solution from the outside, then licking the outside you got only the pure water proeutectic component.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system for more about this process.

Where is the sugar?

When you freeze a dilute aqueous sugar solution pure water freezes first, leaving a more concentrated solution until you reach a high concentration of sugar called the eutectic concentration. Now you have the pure water that's frozen out, called proeutectic water, and the concentrated eutectic sugar solution from which the sugar is finally ready to freeze along with the water. Upon freezing this eutectic composition forms a two-phase eutectic mixture, in which the sugar may appear as veins or lamellae (like veins of some ores among Earth's rocks, though these typically form form a different process). If that structure is in the interior of the ice cube, likely since you cooled the solution from the outside, then licking the outside you got only the pure water proeutectic component.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system for more about this process.

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Where is the sugar?

When you freeze ana dilute aqueous sugar solution pure water freezes first, leaving a more concentrated solution until you reach the eutectica high concentration of sugar called the eutectic concentration. Only then does Now you have the pure water that's frozen out, called proeutectic water, and the concentrated eutectic sugar solution from which the sugar is finally ready to freeze along with the water to form. Upon freezing this eutectic composition forms a rwotwo-phase solid structureeutectic mixture, in which the sugar may appear as veins or lamellae (like veins of some ores among Earth's rocks). If that structure is in the interior of the ice cube, likely since you cooled the solution from the outside, then licking the outside you got only the pure water "proeutectic"proeutectic component. See

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system for more about this process.

Where is the sugar?

When you freeze an aqueous sugar solution pure water freezes first, leaving a more concentrated solution until you reach the eutectic concentration. Only then does the sugar freeze along with the water to form a rwo-phase solid structure. If that structure is in the interior of the ice cube, likely since you cooled the solution from the outside, then licking the outside you got only the pure water "proeutectic" component. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system for more about this process.

Where is the sugar?

When you freeze a dilute aqueous sugar solution pure water freezes first, leaving a more concentrated solution until you reach a high concentration of sugar called the eutectic concentration. Now you have the pure water that's frozen out, called proeutectic water, and the concentrated eutectic sugar solution from which the sugar is finally ready to freeze along with the water. Upon freezing this eutectic composition forms a two-phase eutectic mixture, in which the sugar may appear as veins or lamellae (like veins of some ores among Earth's rocks). If that structure is in the interior of the ice cube, likely since you cooled the solution from the outside, then licking the outside you got only the pure water proeutectic component.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system for more about this process.

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