Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Sugar, Individual Packets (Pack of 1000)

by Wholesome Sweeteners

Product Features

• Pack of 1,000 individual packets
• Individual packets perfect for cafes, delis, and coffee bars
• Certified-organic and fair trade; Non- GMO; Kosher; Suitable for vegan; vegetarian; Halal- and plant-based diets
• Use in hot or cold drinks, for baking, or sprinkled over desserts
• Made from Paraguay-grown ingredients and packaged in Sugar Land, Texas

Product Description

About the Brand

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

Fair Trade Certified. USDA Organic. Fair Trade guarantees a better deal for sugar cane farmers in the Developing World. This blond delicious, Organic Sugar is perfect for hot and cold drinks. So a spoonful of Fair Trade Sugar makes the world a sweeter place!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000EA0D1W
• UPC: 012511445478
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,976 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #5 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Cooking & Baking Supplies > Sugars & Sweeteners > White Sugar

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Purse, June 11, 2009

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Corinne (Carrboro, NC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Sugar, Individual Packets (Pack of 1000) (Grocery)

Everywhere I go they have organic coffee but no organic sugar. I got this to carry around my in my purse and its great so I would always have organic sugar.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fair Trade!, June 25, 2010

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Yogachic - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Sugar, Individual Packets (Pack of 1000) (Grocery)

Sugar is sugar right? BUT this is organic and another huge PLUS for me is that it's fair trade! I think it very important that the people that harvest this for us get compensated fairly to do so and not live in poverty while the company makes all the money. This is the way Im choosing my sugar ....

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fair Trade Sugar Promotion, May 3, 2010

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Arlene N. Renshaw - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Sugar, Individual Packets (Pack of 1000) (Grocery)

A volunteer citizens' group is promoting the use of Fair Trade products in our city (Mankato, MN), so we were pleased to find a source for Fair Trade sugar in individual packets for use in a variety of community settings. This product has been well received.