raw sugar

Turbinado, for instance

Raw sugar is sugar that has been only partially refined, retaining some molasses and a tan or golden color.

It sits between freshly pressed cane juice and the white granulated sugar in most kitchens.

Common varieties include turbinado and demerara.

Despite marketing as more "natural," raw sugar offers negligible nutritional advantage over white sugar.

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sweetener · crystallization · refining · centrifugation · syrups · milling · first press · caramelization · evaporation · brown · unbleached · sticky · humid · fair trade · filtration · processing · harvest · golden

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processing level

raw sugarrefined sugar

Purified crystalline sweetener

white sugar · granulated sugar · table sugar · caster sugar · powdered sugar

naturalness/artificiality

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Manufactured sugar replacement

synthetic sweetener · aspartame · saccharin · sucralose · high fructose corn syrup

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G