This paper is highly practical because in recent years there has been a shift in theU.S.A. and worldwide from the harvesting of burnt to green (unburnt) sugarcane,which has meant that more sugarcane leaves and tops are being processed at facto-ries and have made clarification and sucrose losses worse. The work representedhere offers a solution to this by proving that the addition of lime saccharate(SACCH) instead of the traditional milk of lime (MOL), during clarification ofsugarcane juice, can improve turbid particle removal and be used as a tool bysugar processors to reduce expensive sucrose losses. This paper reports the per-formance of MOL and SACCH lime treatments on both the laboratory andfactory clarification of sugarcane juices and puts forward explanations for thedifferences observed.