On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 18:13:42 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>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.

I have a light brown sugar that lists its ingredients as "Evaporated
cane juice." It is Florida Crystals and the label says "Natural
Sugar, Pure Florida cane sugar. Certified carbon free.

I found a bag in a "general store" that is labeled Evaporated Cane
Juice.

I would guess that dark brown sugar has molasses added and right now I
do not have a package of regular light brown sugar. Will probably be
at the grocer store today and will check the labels on some packages.

BTW evaporated cane sugar is much more expensive that the molasses
added.
--
Susan N.

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