Organic Sugar

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What is organic sugar?

-- Ralph (rroces1@yahoo.com), March 15, 2002

Answers

Anything organic is raised without the use of chemical fertilizers and perticides. It also has to be from a field that has not used chemicals for five years in order to be organic. I find that it is usually a courser sugar and slightly darker because it isn't bleached.

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), March 15, 2002.

Be careful of organic sugar, that is if you want a natural food. Have noticed that most of the organic sugar is actually refined. When Sucanat first came out, I believe it was a whole sugar. The cannister label showed a very high amount of potassium. Well, it changed and had very little potassium. (Notice how they started selling their molasses -- figure where that came from.) I wrote to them a long time ago, but they never answered regarding the loss of minerals.

The only WHOLE ORGANIC sugar I know of is the Rapadura brand. Expensive, I know, but it's got all the minerals and vitamins.

Organic just isn't enough. If it's altered, it's not a healthful food. An example is all the organic milk out there. Fine, but when they homogenize it & ultra-pasteurize it, it is no longer good for you. One yougurt company didn't show on the label that it was homogenized, so I contacted them. Seems it was, but they didn't have to say so. That's why I buy Brown Cow "Cream at the Top" brand.

-- HV (veggie@ourplace.com), March 15, 2002.


Sugar...table sugar or fruit sugar, either sucrose (a glucose fructose disaccharide) or glucose are organic compounds meaning that they are principaly composed of carbon and oxygen, of course there are a few hydrogens thrown in to balance things out....so folks, all sugar is organic, as in an organic compound.

If the sugar is derived from plants that have been grown according to the current standards of organic production in your state or country, then the sugar may be labled as organically grown or something of that nature.

Clear as mud...

Oscar

-- Oscar H. Will III (owill@mail.whittier.edu), March 16, 2002.


i agree with HV about the food and sugar stuff. I do buy "organic" sugar, Florida Crystals, I think it is called, but we hardly use any of it. We mostly use maple syrup and honey from our bees for sweetening, so for our few junk foods this is the compromise.

-- marcee (thathope@mwt.net), March 19, 2002.

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