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Janet Wilder[_1_] Janet Wilder[_1_] is offline
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Default Corn Farmers Fight Back?

sf wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:41:50 -0500, Janet Wilder
> > wrote:
>
>> blake murphy wrote:
>>> On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:35:38 -0700, sf wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 20:37:01 -0400, "jmcquown" >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'll admit I have purposely purchased corn syrup for making peanut brittle.
>>>>> I cannot think of anything else I purposely purchased it for nor anything
>>>>> else I wanted to add it to.
>>>> I buy it to make pecan pie, but I don't want it in my food unless *I*
>>>> choose to add it. I also don't want beet sugar in my food. I want
>>>> cane sugar.
>>> good luck with that.
>>>

>> How does one know if the "sugar" in the ingredients list is cane sugar
>> of beet sugar?

>
> Cane sugar is listed as "pure cane sugar". If it's not specific, you
> can bet money it's really beet sugar.


Thanks.

Next question: If the beet sugar is mixed with other stuff, is there
still a taste difference?

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