Sugar
White sugar, brown sugar and cane sugar: different questions.
Choose for flavor and baking behavior, not the idea that a darker crystal must be healthier.
Category: Sugar
Cane describes a source, brown describes a product, and the two get muddled on almost every shelf. White sugar, brown sugar and cane sugar: different questions. untangles them, because white sugar can come from cane or beet and brown sugar is not simply its opposite. The guide matches each type to a job, from neutral granulated to the molasses moisture of dark brown, the crunch of turbinado and the starch in confectioners sugar. It then handles honey, maple syrup, coconut sugar and stevia blends as ingredients in their own right, notes the FDA added-sugars framing, and repeats the CDC rule on honey and infants under one year.
Cane describes a source, brown describes a product, and the two get muddled on almost every shelf. White sugar, brown sugar and cane sugar: different questions. untangles them, because white sugar can come from cane or beet and brown sugar is not simply its opposite. The guide matches each type to a job, from neutral granulated to the molasses moisture of dark brown, the crunch of turbinado and the starch in confectioners sugar. It then handles honey, maple syrup, coconut sugar and stevia blends as ingredients in their own right, notes the FDA added-sugars framing, and repeats the CDC rule on honey and infants under one year.