Guest guest Posted July 11, 2002 Report Share Posted July 11, 2002 --- In @y..., " Food From Afar " <foodfromafar@c...> wrote: > >>I won't buy the Sucanat brand anymore. I'll tell why later, for those who > care. > > I care. I'd like to your thoughts about Sucanat. > > ine in SC Here is a good article that gives more detail about Sucanat. I should clarify that I am speaking about the Sucanat (this name is owned by a company in Switzerland) that is made by Wholesome Foods, the one that most of us are familiar with. For all I know this other company's Sucanat may be as good as Rapadura. At this point I am hesitant to trust anything with the name Sucanat on it. I need to look into it further to know for sure. Let me know if you know anything about this other company from Switzerland. Anyway, here is the article I was speaking about. http://www.rwood.com/Questions/q_may_01_2001.htm. As you will be able to see after reading the article, the brand Wholesome Foods Sucanat produces refined brown sugar (not whole, un- separated, dehydrated cane juice). They refine (separate-I guess they don't refer to their sugar as refined because it is not bleached, I don't know) it and then add some molasses back to it (brown sugar). They dry it in the granular form, which we are familiar with seeing in dehydrated cane juice sweeteners, versus the typical refined crystallized form that we are used to seeing in the grocery stores. Sucanat just looks different but it is refined brown sugar, according to the process that they use to make it. Here are two links to Wholesome Foods' site that explains the way they make it, as I have just explained: http://www.wholesomesweeteners.com/retail/content.htm and http://www.wholesomesweeteners.com/manufact/natural.htm. Rapadura is the only brand that I know of, at present, that makes a truly whole, un-separated, non-refined, dehydrated cane juice sweetener. I will only buy from them at this point. You have to read Wholesome Foods packaging carefully to see that it is not whole, un-separated, dehydrated cane juice anymore. They do a very good job of leaving you to believe otherwise. You have to know what the words they are using mean to them to figure it out. I am definitely ignorant of a lot of the words used in the whole foods/ natural arena and had to do a lot of research to figure all of this out. I wish that companies would, in consumer terms, plainly put what it is that they are selling instead of using so many flowery terms that in the end it sound like a different product than what they are actually selling. Here is the link for the company that makes Sucanat in Switzerland, if you are interested. I don't know if they are associated with Wholesome Foods or not, or if they just let Wholesome Foods use their registered trademark name, Sucanat. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Pronatec_AG/alle.gif Also, here is the link for Rapunzel. They are the company that sells Rapadura (natural, whole, un-separated, dehydrated cane juice). http://rapunzel.com/products/ There you have it. That is why I won't buy Wholesome Foods Sucanat, or any other company's Sucanat, until I find out more information about their company and how they make their Sucanat. That is all the information I have at this point. If you know anything else, please let me know. Whew! I'm out of breath. Peace and Love of Christ be with you, Robin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 12, 2002 Report Share Posted July 12, 2002 Rapunzel also makes fabulous organic chocolate and cocao. irene At 09:43 AM 7/11/02, you wrote: >--- In @y..., " Food From Afar " <foodfromafar@c...> >wrote: > > >>I won't buy the Sucanat brand anymore. I'll tell why later, for >those who > > care. > > > > I care. I'd like to your thoughts about Sucanat. > > > > ine in SC > >Here is a good article that gives more detail about Sucanat. I >should clarify that I am speaking about the Sucanat (this name is >owned by a company in Switzerland) that is made by Wholesome Foods, >the one that most of us are familiar with. For all I know this other >company's Sucanat may be as good as Rapadura. At this point I am >hesitant to trust anything with the name Sucanat on it. I need to >look into it further to know for sure. Let me know if you know >anything about this other company from Switzerland. Anyway, here is >the article I was speaking about. ><http://www.rwood.com/Questions/q_may_01_2001.htm.>http://www.rwood.com/Questio\ ns/q_may_01_2001.htm. > > >As you will be able to see after reading the article, the brand >Wholesome Foods Sucanat produces refined brown sugar (not whole, un- >separated, dehydrated cane juice). They refine (separate-I guess >they don't refer to their sugar as refined because it is not >bleached, I don't know) it and then add some molasses back to it >(brown sugar). They dry it in the granular form, which we are >familiar with seeing in dehydrated cane juice sweeteners, versus the >typical refined crystallized form that we are used to seeing in the >grocery stores. Sucanat just looks different but it is refined brown >sugar, according to the process that they use to make it. Here are >two links to Wholesome Foods' site that explains the way they make >it, as I have just explained: ><http://www.wholesomesweeteners.com/retail/content.htm>http://www.wholesomeswee\ teners.com/retail/content.htm >and ><http://www.wholesomesweeteners.com/manufact/natural.htm.>http://www.wholesomes\ weeteners.com/manufact/natural.htm. > > >Rapadura is the only brand that I know of, at present, that makes a >truly whole, un-separated, non-refined, dehydrated cane juice >sweetener. I will only buy from them at this point. > >You have to read Wholesome Foods packaging carefully to see that it >is not whole, un-separated, dehydrated cane juice anymore. They do a >very good job of leaving you to believe otherwise. You have to know >what the words they are using mean to them to figure it out. I am >definitely ignorant of a lot of the words used in the whole foods/ >natural arena and had to do a lot of research to figure all of this >out. I wish that companies would, in consumer terms, plainly put >what it is that they are selling instead of using so many flowery >terms that in the end it sound like a different product than what >they are actually selling. > >Here is the link for the company that makes Sucanat in Switzerland, >if you are interested. I don't know if they are associated with >Wholesome Foods or not, or if they just let Wholesome Foods use their >registered trademark name, Sucanat. ><http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Pronatec_AG/alle.gif>http://ourworld.\ compuserve.com/homepages/Pronatec_AG/alle.gif > > >Also, here is the link for Rapunzel. They are the company that sells >Rapadura (natural, whole, un-separated, dehydrated cane juice). ><http://rapunzel.com/products/>http://rapunzel.com/products/ > >There you have it. That is why I won't buy Wholesome Foods Sucanat, >or any other company's Sucanat, until I find out more information >about their company and how they make their Sucanat. That is all the >information I have at this point. If you know anything else, please >let me know. Whew! I'm out of breath. > >Peace and Love of Christ be with you, >Robin > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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