Introduction ICAR-SBI has developed a process to produce a dry product of sugarcane juice having longer shelf life and suitable for commercial applications. The overall process involves freeze dried sugarcane juice product by employing freeze drying or lyophilization process to dry the filtered sugarcane juice followed by blending natural and permitted synthetic food flavours, colour, stabilizers, anti caking agents etc., (if needed)> applying dry extrusion to prepare dry extrudes, applying spheronization/ granulation on dry extrudes to produce spheroid/ granule product and packing the spheroid/granule product.   Technical