Sugar is Sugar. A common colloquialism used nationwide. Palate wise and fact wise, not all sugars are created equal.
Premium Raw Turbinado Sugar is a natural, unrefined sugar made exclusively from sugar cane. Juice is extracted from the sugar cane, and then crystallized through evaporation. These crystals are rinsed with a very small amount of water to remove just enough stickiness to make the product free flowing.
Premium Raw Turbinado Sugar has a distinctive color and taste derived from the sugar cane juice flavor that naturally occurs in the crystals. It is not bleached as is white sugar and has fewer calories.
By contrast, white sugar is obtained by refining the sugar cane crystals to remove the entire sugar cane juice flavor. This refining process removes all of the nutrients as well as the unique sugar cane taste. Thus, white sugar is basically 100% sucrose, whereas Premium Raw Turbinado Sugar contains small amounts of nutrients and retains an unadulterated sugar cane taste.
Invert sugar, a widely used sweetening agent in many baked products, is one of the worst sugar choices.
It is a food additive in syrup form. It’s produced by the application of heat and adding tartaric acid to sucrose. This causes hydrolysis of the sucrose, a process that breaks down the sucrose molecule (a compound sugar) into its component, fructose and glucose molecules.
It is an extremely sweet syrup, akin to high fructose corn syrup, with the exception, that it’s produced from sugar cane rather than corn. It’s far sweeter than granulated sugar and is a cheaper substitute.
On the spectrum of brown granulated sugars, unless they are organic or raw in nature, their brown coloring and molasses flavor is not due to natural molasses content, but rather by artificial color enhancement and flavoring.
THE KITCHEN AT BETHENY’S BEST USES ONLY THE FINEST PREMIUM TROPICAL RAW TURBINADO SUGAR AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE.
THEIR PREMIUM RAW SUGAR IS MADE FROM ALL NATURAL CANE GROWN IN LIMITED QUANTITIES.
WORLDWIDE, THERE ARE VERY FEW MANUFACTURING FACILITIES DEVOTED TO PRODUCING HIGH QUALITY TURBINADO SUGAR. THUS THE SUPPLY IS LIMITED AND COSTLY.