On 2013-11-09 5:41 PM, sf wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 13:50:13 -0800, 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.
>
> He's in the part of the country that would normally have beet sugar.
> The rest of us get one or the other, depending on price negotiations,
> unless the package is clearly labeled as something specific... which
> is when I cross my fingers and hope it's true.
>

I checked a number of sites. One site was for a brand of cane sugar....
marketed as can sugar not brown sugar... with a blurb at the bottom
about how other how other brown sugars are artificially coloured but
that their product is a natural combination of sugar and molasses. All
the other sites said that brown sugar is made by combining white sugar
with molasses.