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 Post subject: Re: Beet Sugar vs. Cane Sugar
PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2014 8:22 am 
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Kathy's Pete wrote:
Around here, beet sugar is called "sugar." If it's cane it says cane sugar.



It's that way around here as well.


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 Post subject: Re: Beet Sugar vs. Cane Sugar
PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2014 1:15 pm 
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Oh, I think that's nationwide.

However, in CA, all sugar at most markets is labelled "cane sugar". It's possible that beet sugar is available as generic sugar at the super-discount markets; I haven't looked.

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 Post subject: Re: Beet Sugar vs. Cane Sugar
PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2014 3:03 pm 
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It could be a "thing" in health food stores simply because it is vegan. Beet sugar, I mean. It doesn't need to be treated with bone char to whiten it.


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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2014 3:16 pm 
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jeanf wrote:
I saw beet sugar for the first time this weekend at Teavana where they sell rock sugar made from beets.


Lantic, probably the most common sugar in Canada (or at least Ontario...) manufactures from both cane and beet, and does not tell you on the package which it was from. This is my interpretation of their site. The exception is you can tell if it is cane from one particular factory, as only that factory uses bone char, and it has a code on the package you can tell by:

http://www.lantic.ca/faq.php?lg=en#4


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 Post subject: Re: Beet Sugar vs. Cane Sugar
PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2014 7:45 am 
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Thanks Paul, I had no idea!


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