Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Dark Brown Sugar, 24-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 6)

by Wholesome Sweeteners

Product Features

• Pak of 6, 24-ounce pouches ( total of 144 ounces)
• A soft, moist sweetener that blends easily in recipes
• Certified-organic and fair trade; Non- GMO; Kosher; Suitable for vegan; vegetarian; Halal- and plant-based diets
• Full-flavored and especially good in sauces, chocolate-based recipes, chutneys, and casseroles
• Made from imported ingredients and packaged in Sugar Land, Texas

Product Description

Product Description

Wholesome Sweeteners brings the very best of nature's sweetness to you and your family every day. Wholesome believes in traditional ways, artisanal products and a very light environmental footprint. After searching the world for the best products, Wholesome has focused on the tropics, where the climate and conditions are just right for growing organic sweeteners. With Fair Trade Certified™ organic and natural sweeteners from Central and South America and Africa, Wholesome is committed to making the world a sweeter place, one spoonful at a time.

Company Overview

• Founded in 1995 in Sugar Land, Texas, Wholesome Sweeteners supplies the American market the highest quality natural and organic sweeteners from around the world.
• Wholesome Sweeteners pioneered efforts to bring sugar and honey into the Fair Trade movement and was the first to bring Fair Trade Certified sweeteners to American markets. Wholesome Sweeteners now offers a wide range of Fair Trade Certified, organic and natural sweeteners produced by traditional methods from nature’s best resources.

Fair Trade Certification is a promise that: Farmers’ cooperatives are paid directly (no middlemen). The members receive a fair and reliable set price for their crops. The cooperative has access to loans and additional premiums for community and business development. It’s trade, not aid. Cooperatives decide how the money is invested; the only stipulation is that every member has a vote in how the inves™ent is made.

Social Responsibility
The Fair Trade Certified™ logo represents Wholesome's commi™ent to consumers that a fair premium price is paid to the farmers’ cooperatives that supply Wholesome’s Fair Trade products.

Since initiating the Fair Trade Certified program in 2005, Wholesome Sweeteners has paid more than $800,000 directly to Fair Trade cooperative partners in Costa Rica, Malawi, Mexico and Paraguay. Fair Trade means that farmers can send their kids to school, keep their land, develop the quality of their harvest and build thriving communities.

Beyond the parameters of Fair Trade Certification, Wholesome selects suppliers based on a demonstrated commi™ent to social responsibility and community outreach.

Environmental Responsibility
Wholesome Sweeteners' ethos is shaped by a deep concern for the long-term health of the planet and all of its inhabitants.

The USDA Organic logo is Wholesome's promise that we hold every product to the highest environmental standard. Each product bearing the USDA Organic logo has been grown and milled to USDA Organic standards, without the aid of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or chemicals.

Wholesome uses traditional methods:

• Fair Trade certification includes a commitment to sustainable agriculture. In recent years, unprecedented acreage has been converted from conventional agriculture to organic cultivation, reducing exposure to pesticides, herbicides and fungicides.
• From the seed stock to harvest, our sugar cane is cultivated and harvested by hand and grown without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides.
• Wholesome’s cane fields are never burned. During the harvest, trimmings are allowed to stay where they fall, decomposing naturally, returning nutrients to the soil, helping protect topsoil and ground water and providing habitat for wildlife.
• At the small mills in Costa Rica, Malawi and Paraguay, our sweeteners are made simply and the spent sugar cane, called bagasse, is often recycled as fuel to generate electricity for the mill and nearby villages.
• Deep in Southern Mexico’s jungles, honeybees browse on lush wildflowers without exposure to antibiotics or chemicals.

Product Description

Perfect for baking and cooking. A soft, moist light brown sugar with a wonderful creamy flavor. It adds warm honey tomes to baking and is perfect for cakes, cookies, crumble toppings and sauces. Use as a 1-for-1 organic replacement for refined light sugar. The Fair Trade label guarantees the consumer a fair price is paid directly to the farmer for the sugar cane they grow. Returning real value to the primary agricultural producers means they can compete with factory farms whilst protecting sustainable farming practices. It also means they can enjoy higher living standards and develop thriving communities. A spoonful of Fair Trade Sugar really does make the world a sweeter place! Fair Trade, organic and kosher certified. Suitable for vegan, vegetarian, halal and plant-based diets.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EA0D1C
• UPC: 012511446529
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,954 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #2 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Cooking & Baking Supplies > Sugars & Sweeteners > Brown Sugar

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Baker's dream come true, December 14, 2008

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Tricia G. (Philly) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Dark Brown Sugar, 24-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 6) (Grocery)

I really enjoy using this sugar. It never hardens and is really full flavored. I ran out and had to buy another brand and my cookies just didn't come out as well. They just tasted sweet and didn't have the depth of flavor that Wholesome gave them previously. I'm never using any other sugar if I can avoid it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great in coffee, September 15, 2010

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Shala Kerrigan (Anchorage) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Dark Brown Sugar, 24-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 6) (Grocery)

My daughter prefers brown sugar in her coffee, I prefer fair trade and organic. This works out perfectly. It has a nice molasses flavor, and it stays moist.
In baking, it's just wonderful. It makes some of the best shortbread I've ever had. It's also very good in pudding instead of using white sugar.
For shortbread, I use
1 cup softened butter
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
2 cups Bob's Red Mill Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
Mix all ingredients, spread in an 8 inch round cake pan and pat flat, prick top with a fork and score wedges. Bake at 325 F for 20 minutes. Cut along score lines and serve.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quality is great; Amazon price is typical, February 21, 2010

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K. Levin (Oregon & Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Dark Brown Sugar, 24-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 6) (Grocery)

Our family has decided that it would be wise to store a year's supply of food as a hedge against inflation as well as preparation for food supply disruptions due to natural or man-made disasters. Rather than just toss a bunch of mysterious items in the basement that would get thrown away in 20-30 years, I've been buying bulk grains from my local natural food store and cooking with powdered milk and eggs and such.

This is my preferred brand of brown sugar. Fair trade is great, and the taste is very rich. I often settle for the store brand at the major, nation-wide natural food chain store when I shop locally. I only purchase this brand on sale as it costs about 15% more and I use a lot in my baking and cooking, plus we're buying ahead for our food storage. The price here on Amazon, using Subscribe & Save, will make this produce equal in price to the store brand, so I'm going for it.

I have also had fewer issues with this brand (over the store brand) being hardened in its packaging. That makes me think this is a thicker, sturdier plastic less prone to tiny air holes, though I can't prove this suspicion.

You can certainly buy cheaper brown sugar. I will continue researching local options for larger sizes in organics, but, in the case of this particular product (brown sugar), my cooking experience makes me willing to pay extra for this brand.