On 2013-11-09 4:50 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> That sounds about right. Sugar comes with molasses in it. The refining
>> process removes the molasses and then they add it back to white sugar to
>> make brown.
>
> That's only true of brown sugar from sugar beets,
> which is white sugar coated with a sugar cane extract.
> Brown sugar from sugar cane has never been white sugar.
>

Several sites I read disagree with you.