evaporated cane juice

cynthiatiller

Anyone have an opinion or advice concerning the benefits/difference in this and refined sugar?

I really like Kashi cereal and they seem lightly sweetened but I wanted to see if anyone else had an opinion! Thanks in advance!

bpetrosky

Evaporated cane juice = sugar. There is no effective difference.

bpetrosky

Some reading for your benefit:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163098211/evaporated-cane-juice-sugar-in-disguise

I'm a little disappointed by Kashi using that term in their ingredients list, I thought better of them.

tomatoey

bpetrosky wrote: »

Some reading for your benefit:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163098211/evaporated-cane-juice-sugar-in-disguise

I'm a little disappointed by Kashi using that term in their ingredients list, I thought better of them.

I've never seen this as a euphemism for sugar. Wow. Yeah, that makes the case for industry self-regulation

Orphia

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SLLRunner

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Alatariel75

That kinda seems like a new low in labeling...

bpetrosky

Well...it's not surprising. Get enough people screaming "sugar is the devil" and manufacturers that need to use it will find a way to obfuscate what it is.

I grew up in a sugar cane producing region, so I'm familiar with the process of making sugar from sugar cane. The only difference with ECJ would be removing one or two steps out of the refining process that is used to make crystalized table sugar.

tomatoey

bpetrosky wrote: »

Some reading for your benefit:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163098211/evaporated-cane-juice-sugar-in-disguise

I'm a little disappointed by Kashi using that term in their ingredients list, I thought better of them.

Ha

"While some folks appear to be distancing themselves from the name "sugar," corn refiners have been on a longstanding quest to put on the sugar mantle. Alas, for them, the FDA ruled earlier this year that the makers of high fructose corn syrup could not change the name of their product to corn sugar."

which they wanted to do because of fallout after a report linking corn syrup to obesity

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/05/30/154009682/fda-rules-corn-syrup-cant-change-its-name-to-corn-sugar

and so it goes

RodaRose

Evaporate cane juice is EXACTLY sugar.
I now this because I spent one day on a farm watching them process the sugar cane. The completed produce was sugar.
If you want more, NPR explains it
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/18/163098211/evaporated-cane-juice-sugar-in-disguise

FDA issued a guidance three years ago suggesting that manufacturers shouldn't use the term evaporated cane juice to describe sweeteners made from sugar cane syrup because the term hides the fact that ultimately it's sugar. Of course, because it's a guidance, and a draft one at that, the agency technically can't enforce it.

Sued0nim

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